Free DVD player

You can get any DVD player for free.

All you need is a crow bar and black face mask.

Oops, I thought you meant hardware...[totally]

windows media player classic works great for me. its totally free, its only one executable file(1.3 mb), and it kind of like the old(good) version of wmp. i think its based on 6.4, if im not mistaken. i can send it to u if u want, just give me an email addy

I use PowerDVD, it came with my DVD drive. Before that on my old PC I used whatever software was included on the DVD (several movies I have include software).

I have heard WMP has a DVD player. My roommate used it to play DVDs. But my computer with windows XP on it doesn't have a DVD-ROM, so I don't know how to set it up.

You're all wrong there is no such thing as a free dvd player because of this:
What about personal/commercial usage?


Some of the codecs distributed with VLC are patented and require you to pay royalties to their licensors. These are mostly the MPEG style codecs.

With many products the producer pays the license body (in this case MPEG LA) so the user (commercial or personal) does not have to take care of this. VLC (and ffmpeg and libmpeg2 which it uses in most of these cases) cannot do this because they are Free and Open Source implementations of these codecs. The software is not sold and therefore the end-user becomes responsible for complying to the licensing and royalty requirements. You will need to contact the licensor on how to comply to these licenses.

This goes for playing a DVD with VLC for your personal joy ($2.50 one time payment to MPEG LA) as well as for using VLC for streaming a live event in MPEG-4 over the Internet.
That's why most dvd drives you buy come with either powerdvd or windvd with the necessary codecs for playing dvds!
so why aren't you using that?

Next version of windows longhorn is supposed to include a free dvd player supposedly?
I doubt it though since they ain't paying for the decoder with xp
About DVD Decoders and Windows XP Support
As a consumer purchasing a new PC or DVD drive with DVD playback support, a portion of your purchase cost goes towards licensing a decoder (typically software) required to play back DVDs. Rather than charge you twice for this license (once when you bought your PC or drive, and the second time as a part of the cost of your copy of Windows XP), we worked closely with the third-party manufacturers of DVD decoders to update their solutions. The result is, the best range of playback options and support in Windows XP at the lowest cost to you, the consumer. The end result is more freedom of choice when selecting a DVD decoder.

Windows media player and WMP classic crash on my pc. But thanks. I'm using NDVD and it works, but the license expires after 14 days... :(

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Original post by daviangel The software is not sold and therefore the end-user becomes responsible for complying to the licensing and royalty requirements. You will need to contact the licensor on how to comply to these licenses.

I didn't understand most of what you said because I dont use VLC, but what i gathered was that the user has to buy the dvd, buy the dvd-drive, and buy a damn decoder too. And if he uses a free player, he has to pay some license fee crap for the decoder it uses. Well that's hilarious, they can kiss my ass. I remember trying to play dvd's in wmp9, then when it didn't work I went online and it talked about "buying decoders". Has the "industry" lost its collective mind? My wmp classic is quite free, and works fine, and as long as it stays that way I'll stick with it. btw my anger isn't directed at you, but the industry :)