Best way to enable DVD watching in Windows Media Player?

ravenvii

macrumors 604

Original poster

• Feb 26, 2008

• #1

I installed Windows and the latest version of Windows Media Player, and found that I need a plug-in to watch DVDs with it.

So which one should I use? Is there any free ones?

Thanks

 

Eidorian

macrumors Penryn

• Feb 26, 2008

• #2

My DVD player for Windows.

 

ravenvii

macrumors 604

Original poster

• Feb 26, 2008

• #3

Interesting. I found that HP has a really old version of InterVideo WinDVD among their software/drivers for this particular laptop model. I downloaded and installed it, and magically Windows Media Player now can play DVDs just fine. No need to use WinDVD itself.

Yeah it's old, but it's free!

 

webgoat

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 26, 2008

• #4

Eidorian said:

My DVD player for Windows.

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i also use vlc for watching dvds in windows

 

ravenvii

macrumors 604

Original poster

• Feb 26, 2008

• #5

webgoat said:

i also use vlc for watching dvds in windows

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Is VLC better than Windows Media Player for watching DVDs?

EDIT: I just tried VLC. It doesn't seem to have closed captioning support, while Windows Media Player does.

So I'll stick with WMP using the codec from the old-but-free WinDVD.