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Osiris
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2005 06:24
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I cant seem to find my nvidia decoder cd and I need a replacement until I find it, does anyone know of a good free one?

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Osiris
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2005 12:51
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Anyone?

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Posted: 23rd Jul 2005 19:27
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I don't think there are any. This is one of those controversial programming things, where you can't decode DVD unless you have a liscence, which costs a hell of a lot. Meaning there aren't any free ones.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2005 20:06
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decode a DVD? Do you mean play it or rip it? SmartRipper is very good at ripping DVD's for backup.. As for playing - PowerDVD is as good as any.

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Posted: 23rd Jul 2005 21:31
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If you mean decoding as in getting past Region Protection, then there's a few firmware and software apps out there that'll do it for you

And as a note, Bypassing Regional encoding isn't actually illegal.
It is an optional thing for distributors to add to their DVD's for better world-wide sales, and isn't classed as copy protection or anything like that

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Osiris
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Posted: 24th Jul 2005 04:41 Edited at: 24th Jul 2005 04:43
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No I mean I just want to play them, ill try power dvd and get back to you.

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Or nevermind, costs money.

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Underworld 1020
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Posted: 24th Jul 2005 04:52
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If want to just play dvd's then you can just use Wimdows Media Player..if you don't have the proper codecs then you can get them here:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/XP_Codec_Pack.htm

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Codec_Pack_All_in_1.htm

With those WMP will play basically anything you want. If you want to rip, copy, burn, etc. then you can get DVD Shrink 3.2 at:

http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html

Just do what it says and it will be really easy. Here's another DVD player program:

http://www.cliprex.com/

If never tried that one, but it looks ok.



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Osiris
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Posted: 24th Jul 2005 04:55
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Ok thanks.

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Osiris
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Grrr... well, it wasnt the codecs keeping me from playing disks, well the DVD drive stoped workin on my friends computer because it couldant read the disks and he wanted me to try it out, and the computer says everything is going normal and its getting power, but its still not reading the disks, it there like a setting I might need to tun on/off?

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AndLabs
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All of the freeware ones come with A LOT OF SPYWARE!!!!! It's good to buy PowerDVD, or get it free with any Dell computer.

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Keaz
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Posted: 24th Jul 2005 05:27 Edited at: 24th Jul 2005 05:29
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The codecs don't have spyware and Dell's are full of Bloatware.

@Osiris
[href]www.doom9.org[/href]
Has alot about DVD playback/decoding/ripping etc.

It might just need cleaning.

Breaking Stuff=Fun!,Bug Testing<>Fun!, Bug Testing=Breaking Stuff, so...
Bug Testing=Fun! Hmmmm....
DOES NOT COMPUTE! SYSTEM MALFUNTION!
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Posted: 24th Jul 2005 05:43
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The have no spyware, I've been using those same codecs and DVD Shrink 3.2 for a while now and plus when I downloaded them my Zonelabs program or my Microsoft AntiVirus program would have notified me, so their clean. But I'm not sure about that last link I gave you because I've never tried it before. Also sometimes some of my cds won't read on my cd drive try using a dvd drive if you have one, sometimes my dvd drive picks up things that my cd drive doesn't and sometimes it the other way around.



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Osiris
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Posted: 24th Jul 2005 06:22 Edited at: 24th Jul 2005 06:22
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It may have been that he just broke it somehow, but his computer, is just going to hell too, I mean, he did break off the front cover of his comp and after that happened he needed o bring it and get some things repaired but it says its working fine, I even tried a dvd cleaner, maybe the drive it just fubar.

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Posted: 28th Jul 2005 20:43 Edited at: 28th Jul 2005 20:44
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if you own the disc and are having trouble you can use dvd decrypter and dvd shrink to make a non specific regional copy for your personal usage.

with a mac vob files open natively on the desktop, there are many freeware applications for both systems that will rip but the above two programs are the best results i have had on the pc

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Posted: 28th Jul 2005 22:50
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Osiris,

Maybe the driver files for the drive hardware are corrupt. Try updating or replacing them.


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