WINDVD replacement?

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Binyamin Dissen

I have downloaded certain files that only WINDVD can seems to play. Some I
have managed to convert with VSO DixVtoDVD but other cause it to crash.

Any thought on a good freeware player?

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Binyamin said:
I have downloaded certain files that only WINDVD can seems to play. Some I
have managed to convert with VSO DixVtoDVD but other cause it to crash.

Any thought on a good freeware player?
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You might want to look at Xenorate Media Player:

http://www.xenorate.com/?page=home&lang=en

I found the link at Nonags, but haven't tried the program. Still, it
looks like it might be a good one. Can be used as a general purpose
media player (including DVDs) according to the site.
 
:>Binyamin Dissen wrote:

:>> I have downloaded certain files that only WINDVD can seems to play. Some I
:>> have managed to convert with VSO DixVtoDVD but other cause it to crash.

:>> Any thought on a good freeware player?

:>Have you tried media player classic?

:>http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli

Working nice.

Even without new codec's.

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I have downloaded certain files that only WINDVD can seems to play. Some I
have managed to convert with VSO DixVtoDVD but other cause it to crash.

Any thought on a good freeware player?
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VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for
various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as
well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

regards
Thorkild Dalsgaard
 
dansheen said:
Zoomplayer should also work:
http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml

And the mega pack has all the codecs needed to play using media player
classic:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Codec-Packs-Video-Codecs/KLite-Mega-Codec-Pack.shtml
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Unfortunately, only Zoom Player Standard is freeware, "While Zoom Player
Professional and Zoom Player WMV Professional come in a Fully Functional
(uncrippled) trial version, requiring registration ($19.95 and $29.95
respectively)."

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Thorkild said:
VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for
various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as
well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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Can't get any of the download links to work.


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ceed said:
Try VIPlay. Good free player:

http://www.urusoft.net/downloads.php?lang=1
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THe $ware that came with my graphics card has a real smooth fast forward
and fast reverse which is identical to what you'd see with a video tape.
But the program was never very stable and my system kept locking up when
I played a DVD, so I removed it. Does VIPlay have fast forward and fast
reverse?

Media Player Classic has it, but it's real jerky.

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John said:
THe $ware that came with my graphics card has a real smooth fast
forward and fast reverse which is identical to what you'd see with a
video tape.
Click to expand...

Sounds interesting... what was the app called?
 
How about

VideoLan (VLC)
http://www.videolan.org/

The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1,
MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels,
digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth
IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes.
VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC,
which can be used to read the stream from the network or display
video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours,
all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX,
Familiar Linux...



/CoMa
 
123 said:
Sounds interesting... what was the app called?
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Why would you be interested in a program that locks up every time you
try to play a DVD? Besides, it's not freeware and as far as I know, only
comes packaged with a new graphics card.

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CoMa said:
How about

VideoLan (VLC)
http://www.videolan.org/

The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1,
MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels,
digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth
IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes.
VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC,
which can be used to read the stream from the network or display
video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours,
all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX,
Familiar Linux...
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Thanks CoMa, but I did indeed try installing that program. An error
message appeared during the install and again when I tried to play a
DVD. In fact, I was unable to get the program to work at all. I tried
installing the program twice with the same results. I emailed the author
and included the error message I got.

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Thanks CoMa, but I did indeed try installing that program. An error
message appeared during the install and again when I tried to play a
DVD. In fact, I was unable to get the program to work at all. I tried
installing the program twice with the same results. I emailed the author
and included the error message I got.
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Maybe try a nightly build (beta) of the new VLC version
http://vthr.via.ecp.fr/~videolan/


/CoMa
 
CoMa said:
Maybe try a nightly build (beta) of the new VLC version
http://vthr.via.ecp.fr/~videolan/
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Thanks. I'll give it a try when I get a chance. Also, I just found this
one while replying to another post:

http://www.dsplayer.de/dspweb/Content/AboutDS.htm

Looks promising. Have you heard of that one or tried it before?

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John said:
Thanks. I'll give it a try when I get a chance. Also, I just found this
one while replying to another post:

http://www.dsplayer.de/dspweb/Content/AboutDS.htm

Looks promising. Have you heard of that one or tried it before?
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It too keeps locking up and the install also generates an error message.

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John said:
Why would you be interested in a program that locks up
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Because it may have only locked up on *your* PC, which may in fact be
a shit PC and thus causing the locks up.
 
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