How do you Play a DVD under Windows 98

[Retro6]

Cool... thanks for that I'll give PowerDVD 5.1 a try I'll see if I can find the key for it as well. The two files might just fit on two 3.5 floppy disks

Back in the day I saw a computer that played DVD's and it looked very nice with a set of wooden harman kardon PC speakers that sounded amazing and I always wanted a PC like that but I could never afford one at the time, I think it was a Pentium II or III running Windows 98. Its nice when you can build that retro PC you always wanted from back in the early days.

I've got a pair of harman kardon speakers now to go with it and a Sound Blaster card all's I need is a CRT monitor.

There's nothing like watching a DVD on a CRT monitor on a retro computer running Windows 98 with a decent set of PC speakers. Although the retro build I did has a Intel Pentium 4 processor and motherboard that isn't period correct, you'd never know as it behaves like a top end Intel Pentium III computer. Everything else is period correct like the sound card and video card, etc etc.

I'll give that PowerDVD 5.1 a go and see how things go.

 

[Flibster]

I used to use a hardware MPEG2 decoder card. Mainly as it was so easy to set the region code, turn off macrovision, use a remote and so on as I needed.

Probably still got it somwwhere.

 

[almoststew1990]

@Retro6 If it would be any help, I can open this bad boy up and see what's what. I can upload the software somewhere. It's from that boxed, new Tiny PC that I picked up.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Would it not still need an ATI drive?

 

[Retro6]

@Retro6 If it would be any help, I can open this bad boy up and see what's what. I can upload the software somewhere. It's from that boxed, new Tiny PC that I picked up.

Thanks I'd really appreciate you doing that for me

I did try something similar but it said I needed an ATI DVD drive.

 

[almoststew1990]

Thanks I'd really appreciate you doing that for me

I did try something similar but it said I needed an ATI DVD drive.

That's interesting cos the PC this came with has the most generic looking DVD drive. POST identified it as Matsuio or something.

 

[Retro6]

That's interesting cos the PC this came with has the most generic looking DVD drive. POST identified it as Matsuio or something.

It could be something to do with the software I downloaded, maybe there was something missing from it.

I know with some old DVD player software it will have a list of several branded DVD drives that it supports.

 

[Retro6]

I did it. I found the software kinda by accident when I was looking for other software for my Windows 98 SE pack. Its pretty decent but I had to spend time looking for a product key to install the DVD software and it all worked. I can now watch DVDs in Win95/Win98/2000 brilliant.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Codec pack for media files/home dvd PowerDVD for commercial discs which often came with a OEM limited version when you bought a drive typically Nero for burning too