Playing a DVD film from my DVD drive on my PC

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11 April 2002, 11:24 PM

Tim Taylor

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Which is the best software I can download to make it possiable to watch DVD films on my PC?

Also does it make a differenec if my films are a mix of region 1 and 2?

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Tim

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11 April 2002, 11:32 PM

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Hello

I like WinDVD (but you have to pay for it).

Whatever software you get, I can recommend downloading a piece of software called DVD Genie. This changes almost all software DVD players to be multi-region compatable.

Steve.

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11 April 2002, 11:39 PM

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Does matter what region discs are, though as steve says, get dvd genie and problems are sorted.

Personally I prefer PowerDVD to view DVD's

but real fave is to use my Apple Mac Powerbook G4, cos it has widescreen and its trull excellent for use on a train.

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12 April 2002, 01:19 PM

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Direct DVD 4.0 is a good un, so is Inter Actual Player.

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12 April 2002, 01:39 PM

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Some DVD-ROM's are now hardware region locked as well, it would be worth checking to see if yours is or not. If it is, it will refuse to read DVD's of a different region regardless of the software player you are using.

This may not be the case (quite a few ROM's are region free and let software do the checking) but worth looking at just in case.

Derek