Free DVD playing software that is easy to use.

[Snow-Munki]

Hi,

Looking for a DVD software for a conference room PC. Needs to be really easy to use.

Was just going to use VLC but think even that may prove a challenge for some of our users.

Thanks,

 

[this_is_gav]

Windows Media Player?

Windows Media Center?

 

[Snow-Munki]

Ah sorry mean to say just standard Windows XP.

Does media player play DVD's out of the box ?

 

[robinbredin]

How about Real player, its not bad.

http://uk.real.com/realplayer/

 

[K.C. Leblanc]

Ah sorry mean to say just standard Windows XP.

Does media player play DVD's out of the box ?

No, you might be able to get it working if you download some codecs, but I've always found this a bit hit and miss.

You could get an OEM copy of Power fairly cheaply.

 

[Rozzy85]

1. Install codec pack.
2. Play DVD in Windows Media Player.

Great success!

 

[Destination]

1. Install codec pack.
2. Play DVD in Windows Media Player.

Great success!

Precisely this, all it needs is a codec pack, use mega codec pack or similar, and it'll play them just run, you could even set it to autoplay DVDs in mediplayer when they are put into the machine.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

vlc player

 

[Smit]

MPC-HC

 

[this_is_gav]

Does media player play DVD's out of the box ?

Just for reference, not on XP no, but as I remember it does on Vista Home Premium and Ultimate and presumably will on every Windows 7 version from HP upwards.

For XP, DScaler should work with Windows Media Player fine, if you'd prefer not to install a codec pack.

 

[whatalegend123]

vlc has to be the easier media player to use
simply download install and there is no fussing with codecs

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

It will play virtually any media under the sun,simple to use also

wmp is crap imho

 

[Snow-Munki]

Thanks all, trying to make it as easy as possible really.

Telling them how to switch on the TV was hard enough !

 

[Tomsk]

Thanks all, trying to make it as easy as possible really.

Telling them how to switch on the TV was hard enough !

Just buy a cheap no-name DVD player for £20!

 

[Ph4lanx]

VLC Media Player - www.videolan.org

I swear by it personally.

 

[Lynx24]

VLC Media Player - www.videolan.org

I swear by it personally.

+1

 

[bigjonnyauk]

prefer to use kmplayer myself great front end and easy to use and very customizable

 

[Ash-Lee]

I used to use VLC Media Player, as mentioned it plays virtually everything.

However i noticed sometimes it doesn't display subtitles (i.e in Avatar when they speak there own language). So for stuff like that i also have installed K-Lite Codec pack which works well with WMP.

 

[OCdude]

I use WMPC with the CCCP codec pack.

Not come across a problem yet!

 

[xJcBx]

+1 for VLC. If you just set it to auto-run whenever a DVD gets put in, there's not much they can't understand.

 

[Yjani]

Media Player Classic for me