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I hooked up the Samsung slim external DVD writer to my NC10. I inserted movie DVDs into the drive. I get a message “Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD deocder is not installed on your computer”. The button choices are Close and Web Help. Web help takes me to a screen to buy software.
Is this telling me the NC10 does not come with software that can play DVD movies? How lame is that?
Am I missing something?
Windows XP does not come with the ability to play DVD’s, Samsung did not bundle software to play DVD’s with the NC10 as it does not have a DVD drive.
Did the optical drive come with any software?
try VLC it should be able to play anything you can throw at it 🙂
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try VLC it should be able to play anything you can throw at it 🙂http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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Gets my vote too – works really wellI’m very happy with the XP Codec Pack which uses Media Player Classic. 🙂
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try VLC it should be able to play anything you can throw at it 🙂http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
[/quote1230849461]VLC it is. It works great. I tried it with several DVD movies and music vidoes. Thanks for the tip.
Bill
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try VLC it should be able to play anything you can throw at it 🙂http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
[/quote1230849461]VLC it is. It works great. I tried it with several DVD movies and music vidoes. Thanks for the tip.
Bill
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no problem, always glad to help where i can 🙂
I’m happy with the XP Codec Pack too. I downloaded VLC and it doesn’t work as well on the Video TS files.
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I’m very happy with the XP Codec Pack which uses Media Player Classic. 🙂
[/quote1231131532]try putting in some other DVD’s many come with a built-in dvd player you can install. often cyberlink dvd or power dvd…
I actually tried that. Eight Legged Freaks (ELF) had a player. But it would not complete the install. I forgot what error message it said. Fortunately, it was not needed to play that DVD. After installing the VLC player, I was able to play ELF and all the other DVDs I tried.
I think someone else said it before, update to Win media player 11 and it should work? I can watch DVDs in Win Media player on my desktop and I’m pretty sure I’ve never installed anything specifically to do that. Not tried on my NC10 though.
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I’m happy with the XP Codec Pack too. I downloaded VLC and it doesn’t work as well on the Video TS files.
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You should try MPC for .VOB files as it works fine for me. Alternatively, you could try PowerDVD. I use it all the time; mainly due to the easy-to-use controls. It isn’t free, but it is well worth acquiring.I use xbmc (Atlantis) http://xbmc.org/about/
It plays everything and works like a charm.
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