Vista Complaints

[Plane Sailing]

Does that pack have a codec for playing DVD? It is compatible with the most recent WMP11?

I know that I use Media Player Classic for playing my DVD's and it does an awesome job.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Does that pack have a codec for playing DVD? It is compatible with the most recent WMP11?

CCCP comes with Media Player Classic and ZoomPlayer. I haven't worked with ZoomPlayer much, but I think MPC is much better than WMP, and more lightweight. MPC can play DVDs, as Plane Sailing says.

WMP does take advantage of the codecs, though. I have used it a bit and it seems to play everything.

 

[jdrakeh]

Then I try watching a movie (Windows Media Player has frills but sucks for movies) I try finding a media player which will do the trick, notta, nothing, they all require DirectX 9.0 I have 10.0 thanks to the Vista.

Real Player works in Vista w/out upgrades. Ditto Power DVD. That said, you will need the latest Divx codecs for Real Player. And WMP seems to do fine with DVDs on my end. . . but I also have an insane amount of RAM. Vista eats up a lot of that. Anything less than 640 MB and you'll have issues.

Incidentally, some of the stuff that runs poorly under Windows Vista can be "tricked" if you open the properties tab for the executable, run it as admin, and select the "run as if Window XP Service Pack 2 compliant" option.

 

[Ranger REG]

CCCP comes with Media Player Classic and ZoomPlayer. I haven't worked with ZoomPlayer much, but I think MPC is much better than WMP, and more lightweight. MPC can play DVDs, as Plane Sailing says.

WMP does take advantage of the codecs, though. I have used it a bit and it seems to play everything.

I tried to install just the MPEG-2 codec from CCCP, but that didn't work for my WMP11. Should I just do a full installation, including the MPC? If so, will WMP11 run alongside MPC?

 

[Asmor]

Sadly, playing DVDs isn't as simple as installing a codec...

I'm not sure what the exact issue is, but you need to have some kind of DVD player program installed (you don't need to use it, it just needs to be installed). My guess is that it has something to do with the encryption, so you can only get stuff you need to decrypt it (legally) by installing some software that's paid for the rights to do that. Found this out the hard way when I reinstalled Windows on my laptop... Apparently the restore discs didn't come with whatever software I used to have (I imagine PowerDVD).

I'm sure there's some legally-grey way to do it, though. Hell, it's still technically illegal to watch DVDs on Linux.

 

[babomb]

I tried to install just the MPEG-2 codec from CCCP, but that didn't work for my WMP11. Should I just do a full installation, including the MPC? If so, will WMP11 run alongside MPC?

Yes, they should run alongside each other with no problems.

 

[Ranger REG]

Yes, they should run alongside each other with no problems.

The codec does not have an expiration date, does it?

 

[Asmor]

The codec does not have an expiration date, does it?

It's not milk. o_0

No, software does not have an expiration date (unless artificially put in by the developer in a misguided attempt to force you to upgrade, which is a despicable and, thankfully, not wide-spread practice).

Obsolescence, on the other hand...

Just install the community codec pack. Then a few months/years later when you find something you can't play, install it again. Repeat as neccessary.