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04-05-2008
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| | media player wont play DVD files i upgraded from XP pro to vista and i cannot seem to get medial player to play DVD files like it did in XP What i did, i left XP installed on a 40GB "C"drive and installed vista "clean" on a 300GB "d" drive, hoping i could import a few inportant files and bookmarked internet sites later. Is there any way to find the codec from XP and install it into media player in vista??? TIA for any and all help Gene |
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04-06-2008
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| | Re: media player wont play DVD files treebeard wrote: Quote: > i upgraded from XP pro to vista and i cannot seem to get medial player > to play DVD files like it did in XP > > What i did, i left XP installed on a 40GB "C"drive and installed vista > "clean" on a 300GB "d" drive, hoping i could import a few inportant > files and bookmarked internet sites later. Is there any way to find > the codec from XP and install it into media player in vista??? > > TIA for any and all help > > Gene Maybe the following article will offer some ideas: Windows Vista - Play a CD or DVD in Windows Media Center http://tinyurl.com/5yxj43 or... http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...29baf1033.mspx -- John Inzer Digital Media MVP Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk |
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04-06-2008
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| | RE: media player wont play DVD files http://www.mediacodec.org/ A good link for codecs. -- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia "treebeard" wrote: Quote: > i upgraded from XP pro to vista and i cannot seem to get medial player > to play DVD files like it did in XP > > What i did, i left XP installed on a 40GB "C"drive and installed vista > "clean" on a 300GB "d" drive, hoping i could import a few inportant > files and bookmarked internet sites later. Is there any way to find > the codec from XP and install it into media player in vista??? > > TIA for any and all help > > Gene > |
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04-06-2008
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| | Re: media player wont play DVD files any sugestions on how to get rid of the pop-ups, and toolbars that site installed?? On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 00:40:00 -0700, Mick Murphy <MickMurphy@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: |
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04-06-2008
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| | Re: media player wont play DVD files I don't know what you installed; but I have no probs with it! You have to read what you are installing! -- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia "treebeard" wrote: Quote: > any sugestions on how to get rid of the pop-ups, and toolbars that > site installed?? > On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 00:40:00 -0700, Mick Murphy > <MickMurphy@xxxxxx> wrote: > Quote: > |
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