Comments on: Why won’t my Vista machine play DVDs? http://askowen.info/2008/09/why-wont-my-vista-machine-play-dvds/ Your friendly neighbourhood geek Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:57:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Owen http://askowen.info/2008/09/why-wont-my-vista-machine-play-dvds/comment-page-1/#comment-2520 Owen Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:39:03 +0000 http://askowen.info/?p=333#comment-2520 I saw that post, but wasn't 100% it would solve the problem. I'd be curious to hear from someone using Home Basic who used the codec pack to successfully play DVDs. I saw that post, but wasn’t 100% it would solve the problem. I’d be curious to hear from someone using Home Basic who used the codec pack to successfully play DVDs.

]]> By: ChrisM http://askowen.info/2008/09/why-wont-my-vista-machine-play-dvds/comment-page-1/#comment-2518 ChrisM Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:09:12 +0000 http://askowen.info/?p=333#comment-2518 A quick google of vista free dvd found http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/01/19/download-free-vista-codec-package-423/ This is a codec package, and whilst I generally advise clients/friends to avoid them (I prefer the stability and lack of clashes that downloading separate DivX/XVid, AC3, MP3 (for ripping), MKV, MPC and both Real and Quicktime Alternatives codecs), if this package works well and enables DVD playing through Windows Media Player (or your fave media player), then who am I to argue? A quick google of vista free dvd found

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/01/19/download-free-vista-codec-package-423/

This is a codec package, and whilst I generally advise clients/friends to avoid them (I prefer the stability and lack of clashes that downloading separate DivX/XVid, AC3, MP3 (for ripping), MKV, MPC and both Real and Quicktime Alternatives codecs), if this package works well and enables DVD playing through Windows Media Player (or your fave media player), then who am I to argue?

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