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Can anybody recommend good DVD playing software?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:35 pm
by Benjamin Haines
And not PowerDVD. I just got PowerDVD and it is terrible, dare I say worse than Windows Media Player. Both WMP and PDVD give me jerky playback on some DVDs, but not all. CM's Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster works fine, but their Godzilla disc plays jerky as hell on both programs. These are just two examples, but I need a program that can play all of the DVDs in my collection without turning to "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!", as opposed to just half of them.

Note that the problem only occurs when I put the players in fullscreen mode. They both play smoothly if the player is only taking up a fraction of the screen, but once they get big enough it's like the video playback can't keep up with the audio. And as mentioned before, it's only like this for some titles, but it's consistent between both programs.

Does anybody else ever have these problems with the programs? And can anybody recommend a good alternative? I was told PowerDVD would be a good alternative to WMP, but it's just as bad for me. Is there anything that's actually better?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:36 pm
by Hawanja

PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:25 pm
by Benjamin Haines

PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:35 pm
by Henry88

PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:08 am
by Tom R VanSlambrouck

PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:43 pm
by Jim Ballard
I just use VLC Media Player. It's free and supports pretty much everything.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:05 pm
by Xenorama

PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:18 pm
by Shonokin

PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:03 pm
by Hawanja