TSGL: decoder

[Chuck Neuenschwander]

Happy Easter all:
  Things went badly last night. First I found that decoder problem  Then I found that powerpoint had a problem. Played with WORD and found it had problems. So the plan is this morning to download one of these DVD players, then kick off a download of  OpenOffice  (I wonder how long that takes?) and, if successful, I'll toss the MSOffice that I had transferred over from the 4GIG drive and is apparently faulty.
  Sure would like to get enough confidence in this machine that it pays to ship it to my daughter.   -Chuck

Don Penlington <deepend at tpg.com.au> wrote:
  Chuck wrote:
> Tried to play a DVD. Media player said it had a missing compatible
> DVD decoder. >>


Windows so-called MediaPlayer is the worst mediaplayer ever invented. It 
won't play anything much other than the proprietary Microsoft .wmv format. 
And it is virtually function-less compared with just about any other 
player, of which there are many. It has a nice interface, and may be OK for 
audio ripping, but that's about it.

My first choice is usually either WinDVD, PowerDVD, or Nero Showtime, one 
of which usually comes with DVD burners. Check your DVD burner disk for 
player choices.

For freeware, my choices in the following order are:
Gom (most functions), VLC (most codecs), JetPlayer. All are very versatile 
and will self-install many codecs. If Gom can't find the appropriate codec 
for a particular video file, it will run an automatic web search for it and 
offer to download and install it.

Any of these will play standard DVD's just fine.

Don Penlington

>From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland.
Computer tutorials, local scenery, and other things at my website:
http://users.tpg.com.au/deepend/index1.html


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