pwn3rer
01-01-2010, 05:01 PM
Hi all
My sister is at Uni at the minute, and the internet there is limited to 0.5mb - which sucks. So basically, if she wants to watch something on Iplayer, it'll take 6 hours to load, which isn't practical.
She can easily rent DVDs to watch, however, her computer won't play them. I haven't seen the message myself, however I imagine it's some sort of DRM issue. She has Windows XP, and is sticking with that, for the minute.
When the dvd is entered it just says "windows media player cannot play this blah blah... do you want us to find software which can?", she says "yes", and it comes up with some windows recommended software for £13.
However, I fear this won't do the job. So I am on the look for a number of free programs to view DVDs, and, if all else fails, Payware programs too. I have already tried the obvious - VideoLan, but that doesn't work either (apparently).
Anything would be nice, I am just going to burn them all to a disk and send them to her.
I also notice that on Windows Vista and 7, this is never an issue, and I imagine it is contanstly streaming information on your viewing back to M$. And the DVD is probably verified through the net, whereas the software on XP is not capable of doing this.
So, it is most likely an OS thing, as opposed to a media player thing.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
My sister is at Uni at the minute, and the internet there is limited to 0.5mb - which sucks. So basically, if she wants to watch something on Iplayer, it'll take 6 hours to load, which isn't practical.
She can easily rent DVDs to watch, however, her computer won't play them. I haven't seen the message myself, however I imagine it's some sort of DRM issue. She has Windows XP, and is sticking with that, for the minute.
When the dvd is entered it just says "windows media player cannot play this blah blah... do you want us to find software which can?", she says "yes", and it comes up with some windows recommended software for £13.
However, I fear this won't do the job. So I am on the look for a number of free programs to view DVDs, and, if all else fails, Payware programs too. I have already tried the obvious - VideoLan, but that doesn't work either (apparently).
Anything would be nice, I am just going to burn them all to a disk and send them to her.
I also notice that on Windows Vista and 7, this is never an issue, and I imagine it is contanstly streaming information on your viewing back to M$. And the DVD is probably verified through the net, whereas the software on XP is not capable of doing this.
So, it is most likely an OS thing, as opposed to a media player thing.
Any help is greatly appreciated!