DVD software question
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I've got my PC almost working now, they're going to take it back and try to find a PCI card that will work with two PCI-E cards ( or it's an extra $500 for a 4 output card ). Now I have one other issue. This is the first time I've bought a DVD drive that didn't come with burning software, and the player it came with ( ASUS DVD, but a skinned power DVD under the hood ), crashes whenever you hit the play button. It runs fine, brings up the controls, but hitting play kills it. So where would I look for some decent DVD software ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
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I've got my PC almost working now, they're going to take it back and try to find a PCI card that will work with two PCI-E cards ( or it's an extra $500 for a 4 output card ). Now I have one other issue. This is the first time I've bought a DVD drive that didn't come with burning software, and the player it came with ( ASUS DVD, but a skinned power DVD under the hood ), crashes whenever you hit the play button. It runs fine, brings up the controls, but hitting play kills it. So where would I look for some decent DVD software ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Nero Burning Rom is pretty good, but it depends if you want freeware or not.
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Nero Burning Rom is pretty good, but it depends if you want freeware or not.
Darka [Xanya] "When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?"
Yeah, most drives I've had came with Nero, I like it. Does it do playback as well nowadays ? Or do I need to find another program to play DVDs with ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
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Yeah, most drives I've had came with Nero, I like it. Does it do playback as well nowadays ? Or do I need to find another program to play DVDs with ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
It comes with Nero Showtime which is the DVD player, you get quite a few good tools with it http://ww2.nero.com/nero7/enu/Nero_7_Premium_New_Features.html[^]
Darka [Xanya] "When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?"
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Yeah, most drives I've had came with Nero, I like it. Does it do playback as well nowadays ? Or do I need to find another program to play DVDs with ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Christian Graus wrote:
Does it do playback as well nowadays ?
Yes but not as good as something like PowerDVD.
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I've got my PC almost working now, they're going to take it back and try to find a PCI card that will work with two PCI-E cards ( or it's an extra $500 for a 4 output card ). Now I have one other issue. This is the first time I've bought a DVD drive that didn't come with burning software, and the player it came with ( ASUS DVD, but a skinned power DVD under the hood ), crashes whenever you hit the play button. It runs fine, brings up the controls, but hitting play kills it. So where would I look for some decent DVD software ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Just a rant. Good dvd playing software is hard to find. PowerDVD 4.0 was good. 7.0 is a bloatware, it still runs fine (mostly) but I just don't understand why you can't undock controls in full screen mode. Now instead of putting them on the second monitor I have two ugly strips sliding from underneath the screen in full screen mode. Annoying to say the least. If you notice I said it mostly works, one day for some reason the sound just stopped working. I press play, the movie plays, but no sound comes out, I didn't change anything, it just stopped working all by itself. Early WinDVD versions were also good, slighly clumbersome interface, but nothing compared to current 7.0 version which looks like teenage girl dream with all the xp-styled heart and magic wand icons... bleah... In addition to that when playing wide screen movies, the top and bottom black bars aren't black. They are gray and I haven't found a way to change it. You'd think it's a minor thing, but you have no idea how annoying those gray bars are when you watch a movie at night. Those bars should be black. Period. You can try ZoomPlayer to play DVDs, which is what I mostly use to play DVDs right now, there is a freeware version with some functionality disabled, but unfortunately it doesn't work very well with DVDs. Sometimes it crashes if you have right-click menu open and it changes resolution (mostly when it jumps from all those warning screens to the actual content). It also has some DVD specific bugs. For example, it sometimes crashes on my Alien DVDs when the end-credits end and it's about to jump to menu, and the latest one, for some reason it refuses to play pulp fiction DVD I just bought, just hangs when it's about to show the menu. Well, on the bright side, on most DVDs it can skip all those commercials and anti-pirate DVD warnings, which is a big plus for me (I already bought the damn DVD, it's mine mine mine, I didn't pirate it, I bought it, so stop bugging me). In any case as of right now I don't know of a good DVD player. You could try getting older versions of PowerDVD, but they do not support multi-monitor configuration (which is actually a problem for most DVD software). 7.0 does support multi-monitor playback, but like I said, it has problems of its own. I think your best bet is to get ZoomPlayer and WMP combo. Use ZoomPlayer for most DVDs and WMP for whatever ZP cannot handle. Actually come to think WMP isn't all that bad compared to current powerdvd and windvd software (the biggest annoyance is floating bars same as in powerdvd
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I've got my PC almost working now, they're going to take it back and try to find a PCI card that will work with two PCI-E cards ( or it's an extra $500 for a 4 output card ). Now I have one other issue. This is the first time I've bought a DVD drive that didn't come with burning software, and the player it came with ( ASUS DVD, but a skinned power DVD under the hood ), crashes whenever you hit the play button. It runs fine, brings up the controls, but hitting play kills it. So where would I look for some decent DVD software ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
A later version of CyberLink PowerDVD or InterVideo WinDVD. If you have a late model nVidia card you could look at TheaterTek DVD ~ I stick with Nero for burning.
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I've got my PC almost working now, they're going to take it back and try to find a PCI card that will work with two PCI-E cards ( or it's an extra $500 for a 4 output card ). Now I have one other issue. This is the first time I've bought a DVD drive that didn't come with burning software, and the player it came with ( ASUS DVD, but a skinned power DVD under the hood ), crashes whenever you hit the play button. It runs fine, brings up the controls, but hitting play kills it. So where would I look for some decent DVD software ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
I just use Media Player Classic[^] for those rare occasions that I need to play a dvd on my pc. Minimal, no bells and whistles, but it does the job for me.
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