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[soc_puppet]

S-so. I seem to have accidentally uninstalled and deleted whatever software it was that allowed me to play and watch DVDs on my computer in my frantic computer-cleaning of A Little While Ago. That is, I can load the disc into the DVD drive, but it will fail to play on either of my players. Given that I have played DVDs on this computer before, and even tried with a specific DVD that I've used on this one before, I'm pretty sure it was a program.

...Anyone have anything they can recommend to me here?

Edit: Going back and looking through, WMP claims lack of DVD Decrypter. This is quite possible. If someone can't suggest a good free one, I guess I'll probably be borrowing a Harry Potter DVD from home, as at least one of those came with one. Not paying for things = helpful to me.

Edit 2: Never mind! MPC seems to be working for me again now! Thank God, seriously @_@

Comments

[comic]

If your computer came with CDs, I'd suggest looking through them for perhaps drivers that look applicable or dvd playing software that can be reinstalled.

Beyond that I uh... don't know. You can open DVDs in VLC but it's kind of hackery.

[soc_puppet]

Alas, it did not :/ It had stuff installed already.

I'll keep that as a back-up option, then.

[semiramis.livejournal.com]

What system are you running?

[semiramis.livejournal.com]

...ahhh, wait, if the players are still there but you can't play, you probably uninstalled the codec. Hang on...

[semiramis.livejournal.com]

...okay, I can't be of that much help without knowing what system you're on, but what you're looking for, I think, is probably the MPEG-2 codec. If you're on a Mac, you can probably find it for free somewhere on the apple website. On a windows... I'm not so sure. But yes.

[soc_puppet]

I've got Windows XP, with both Windows Media Player and Media Player Classic installed, possibly with a side order of some flash player somewhere that I pay no attention to. I think I'll try the codec thing first, though.

Thanks for the suggestion ♥