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Alternative to Windows Media Player [closed]

Does anybody know any alternatives to windows media player which will play dvds in high defintion?
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Recommended free codecs to play DVD in Windows Media Player 11? [closed]

None of the MPEG-2 codecs recommended on the WMP help page are available free. Without installing a codec pack, or (at this stage) installing another media player, are there any recommended free MPEG-...
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Why can't I play DVDs on Windows 8 Pro with Media Center Pack?

I have a laptop with Windows 8 Pro with Media Center (64-bit), but neither Media Player or Media Center can play DVDs. Have I done something wrong? Did the Feature Pack not install correctly? Should ...
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DVD not working on Windows Media Player

I've made a DVD with Adobe Encore and it play fine on VLC, other media player, and my DVD player connected to my TV. The only exception is Windows Media Player, which give an error about a wrong ...
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Failing DVD playback on Windows 7 x64

System: Windows 7 Home Premium x64, brand new HW. The machine rejects to play a few DVD-s. It is consistent on what to reject. Some DVD-s are fine, they are always fine. Some are rejected, they are ...
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DVD playback with Windows Media Player 11 works fine, but when copied to HDD and then played back, the audio stutters

I have several DVDs with short documentaries on it. Since the notebook I'm using (a Dell Latitude E6400) has only one DVD drive, and I might play back those short movies very often, I thought of ...
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How to watch a DVD from only files off the DVD

A while ago I copied a DVD from disk to my hard drive. Instead of doing an image copy and writing an .iso file, it copied the file structure from the disk to a folder on my HDD. That folder contains ...
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No sound playing DVD in Windows Media Player

When opening a DVD VOB file in Windows Media Player, no sound can be heard. When opening the same file in Windows Live Photo Gallery, sound is ok. What could the problem be?
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How can I get audio when I speed up playback of a DVD in Windows Media Player?

In Windows Media Player there's an option Enhancements->Play Speed Settings which lets you change the playback speed. When playing audio files (mp3 etc) it works fine and does pitch correction etc. ...
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Which are the required codecs to play DVDs? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Playing DVD movies in Windows 8 Which are the required codecs to play DVDs in Windows 8?
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Can Netbook’s play DVDs that were RIPed to a hard drive?

I have a few training DVDs that I RIPed to a hard drive. (They are in VIDEO_TS folders) Using Windows 7 Media Player, I am able to play them back on my workstation without any problem. I am just ...
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Windows 8, Media Player, K-lite 9.9 (Full) Using Pay to function

I have K-lite installed and I can now view the SRT file Subtitles with the movie in Windows 8 media player. When I use play to to send the video to my wireless DVD payer the subtitles don't show. ...
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Windows Media Player won't show DVD video when laptop is unplugged

I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 laptop running Windows XP. Even though it doesn't have a DVD drive, using an ISO imaging tool I can mount DVD images as local drives. I can then play DVD movies just ...
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Windows Media Player not correctly copying Japanese text in track information when ripping DVDs

I'm ripping some DVDs I bought lately. When the track contains only English text in places like "Album" and "Artists", everything gets ripped nicely. But when there's Japanese text, it gets copied as ...
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Update Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder

When I see Technical Information for Windows media player. I can see information about Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder (msmpeg2vdec.dll). In some machines I see version as 12.0.9200.16426 and some ...
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