i've been using KM player for awhile now.. it plays every file format i have (including mkv) without having to install any codec packs. got that and VLC installed but i use KM primarily.
i've been using KM player for awhile now.. it plays every file format i have (including mkv) without having to install any codec packs. got that and VLC installed but i use KM primarily.
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My "new" computer doesn't even have a CD/DVD drive. Nor have I found the desire for it.
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A separate Media Center upgrade isn't bad but if their going to go ahead and make it a separate addon, then at least go all the way and include a Blu-ray licence option as well. With Sony charging as much as they are for the licence we were never going to get it as part of windows, now that Microsoft is going this rout for the DVD licence it seems like a missed opportunity to not also offer Blu-ray support.
Also I read that the DVD support will be only inside of the Media Center, leaving normal Windows Media Player still unable to play DVDs.
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i left that option out too since all the drives i have are ide and there are no ide ports on the board and to be honest i very rarely use it.. i have a usb dvd drive if need be.Originally Posted by 3lfk1ng
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No worries, it will. They're not dropping DVD support, they're dropping video DVD playback support. The first is with regards to reading from a DVD drive as a device (data), the second goes with decoding certain proprietary data stream formats (video). VLC will still be able to read raw data from DVDs and since it does its own parsing and decoding, you're fine so long as the copy protection doesn't get in the way.
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As a thread about any computer related subject has its length approach infinity, the likelihood and inevitability of a poorly constructed AMD vs. Intel fight also exponentially increases.
Rule 1A:
Likewise, the frequency of a car pseudoanalogy to explain a technical concept increases with thread length. This will make many people chuckle, as computer people are rarely knowledgeable about vehicular mechanics.
Rule 2:
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When it comes to computer news, 70% of Internet rumors are outright fabricated, 20% are inaccurate enough to simply be discarded, and about 10% are based in reality. Grains of salt--become familiar with them.
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You just can't win. If your product offers feature A instead of B, people will moan how A is stupid and it didn't offer B. If your product offers B instead of A, they'll likewise complain and rant about how anyone's retarded cousin could figure out A is what the market wants.
At codecs...
http://www.windows7codecs.com/
Why i need windows 8?
?
Any why they move so fast to make windows 8? Windows 7 aint good enugh?
MicroSoft will allways says "we need money!"
First make performance drops with windows 7, then make better windows, saying get win8, now!, Win8 is better in all things, blah blah. Once again..
So far, I have not been a great fan of Windows 8. Invisible buttons on the screen corners, Metro UI, are just a few of the annoyances. If using the Metro UI, you have to make a screen link to shutdown the PC.
I enjoy DVD's myself and will use them in Windows 8 with 3rd party help. I also will mod the registry to use the normal legacy desktop.
Just to be sure, does this mean a drop of DVD support on Windows Media Player (Being able to play them, dealing with encryption and all that), or simply the removal of the the bundled MPEG2 decoder?
If it's the later then it's far from an issue. As someone else mentioned GPU drivers come with their own MPEG2 decoders, and you have more than one free alternative out there. But if it's the former then it is an issue for the average user, who will have to resort to a different player to watch DVDs. And for them that usually means paying for a proprietary one rather than using free players like Media Player Classic: Home Cinema (Which is, IMO, the best by far).
No, everything is not that bad. I already wrote here about it: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post5097644
So, windows 8 plays DVD movies. it is only WMP11 does not. It can see content of dvd disks.
Speaking of codecs - now all decoding done by contemporary hardware, and I think its price reflects any licenses. So why pay twice?
And, we will be able to install 3rd party software codecs as we do it in all previous windows versions.
It has everything that other versions of windows have and more. I got used to it just in few days. And, you don't need any additional shortcut. Say, Win+I gives you all you need.
All it resembles they days when people were comparing their WinXP with newer versionsYet now WinXP interface looks so shabby
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What about blu ray? Great for backups, not very cheap but price per gb is slightly better than with burn able DVD.
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