Quake3World

I've tried a few over the past few weeks, but right now I'm using AVS DVD player, and honestly, it's not that bad of a player... but with each movie I watch I find something else that bugs me. I've tried a few others in the past, but very rarely watched movies on my pc due the ancient monitor I've been using. Few weeks ago I picked up a nice little widescreen lcd and have been using it like crazy and it's about to drive me mad.

Can anyone recommend a better app for watching dvds, I would prefer it be free, but I wouldn't mind spending a bit more to get this working without this many problems.

Main gripe I have is if you pause a movie using AVS for about a minute or more, you have to stop the movie, and then restart it or it's going to look like a out of sync youtube vid. That and pretty much any somewhat "new" movie I try and play normally freezes up as soon as I hit play.

VLC

WinDVD 8 is perfect IMO.

Media Player Classic can play DVDs aswell as VLC, though VLC might be better at it depending on the DVD. Both are free.

I used to have WinDVD on my old PC and it was good, but I don't have it any more. It came with the graphics card for that PC.

With this PC I got CyberLink PowerDVD which was OK at first but later it had a problem where it overlayed a window obscuring the video window. So I just use Mplayerclassic or VLC now, they work, but the seeking and volume controls could be better.

Maybe I'll look into getting WinDVD again cause I remember it being better than PowerDVD (without the bug).

DTS wrote:Media Player Classic can play DVDs aswell as VLC,

I remember trying MPC some time ago, but something about it turned me off iirc. Don't think I've tried VLC though, I'll check both out next time around.

Captain Mazda wrote:WinDVD 8 is perfect IMO.

checkmate

SoM wrote:VLC

All you need.

SoM wrote:VLC

yep, all you'll ever need unless you're a fan of big fat shiny gui's.

MPC has a Big fat shiney Gui?

did i say MPC? i was referring to WinDVD/PowerDVD you fucking gimp.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:

SoM wrote:VLC

yep, all you'll ever need unless you're a fan of big fat shiny gui's.

Which is bizarre since DVDs usually get played in full screen so the GUI is pointless. VLC is a great free choice.

Btw, damn you Foo. Thanks to some of your recommendations a couple years back I'm now using Firefox, Foxit, Openoffice, VLC, 7zip, etc.....you've infected me with your open-sourcedness

finish your journey into the dark side. which isn't really dark at all, is it

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:

SoM wrote:VLC

yep, all you'll ever need unless you're a fan of big fat shiny gui's.

you like that? big fat cow looking guis with absolute no added features with the added bulk

what? read again, goof.

sorry but it seems it's not the first time you're misunderstood in this thread alone.. it's prolly your accent

perhaps you both need glasses or a new cranial turret.

No shit, tsakali, I think you misunderstand.