Roxio Community > I Love My VLC

sknis

May 25 2008, 04:23 AM

QUOTE (zippy @ May 25 2008, 03:11 AM)

I have easy media creator 7 installed. Operating system is win XP2. I have an external LaCie d2 DVDRW/CDRW and it won't play a dvd. I have tried playing dvd with windows media player 11 and an error says I need to install a dvd encoder compatable with windows media player. Does anyone know if Media Creator 7 has an encoder included in its installation.

Why don't you do as suggested? Go here for the WMP decoder.

EMC 7 should have a player but I don't remember what it is called. The later versions have CinePlayer. That should play the DVD also.

You must be one of the lucky ones getting EMC 7 to work when WMP 11 is also loaded. In many cases, IE 7 and WMP 11 cause the EMC products not to work properly.

alias

May 26 2008, 04:02 AM

my 2 cents here

forget about wmp, and go to www.videolan.org and install VLC player. You will be able to play dvds and almost 99% of all video formats.

That you solve your problems

Jim_Hardin

May 26 2008, 05:50 AM

QUOTE (alias @ May 26 2008, 08:02 AM)

my 2 cents here

forget about wmp, and go to www.videolan.org and install VLC player. You will be able to play dvds and almost 99% of all video formats.

That you solve your problems

There are a lot of people that do not care for the idea of having one little free utility on our PC's that only do one task.

After a time you seem to end up with dozens of them and then you start having trouble with strange conflicts…

Just looking at the other side of the coin.

alias

May 27 2008, 03:45 AM

QUOTE (Jim_Hardin @ May 26 2008, 05:50 AM)

There are a lot of people that do not care for the idea of having one little free utility on our PC's that only do one task.

After a time you seem to end up with dozens of them and then you start having trouble with strange conflicts…

Just looking at the other side of the coin.

I would agree on that if you were talking of a package of codecs, but VLC wont cause any problems and it is still the number 1 option for videos and DVD on PC and MAC. VLC wont install codecs that when you decide to unisntall are left on your pc. Take it from a freak that formats his pc every 4 to 6 months

Jim_Hardin

May 27 2008, 03:49 AM

QUOTE (alias @ May 27 2008, 07:45 AM)

I would agree on that if you were talking of a package of codecs, but VLC wont cause any problems and it is still the number 1 option for videos and DVD on PC and MAC. VLC wont install codecs that when you decide to unisntall are left on your pc. Take it from a freak that formats his pc every 4 to 6 months

Right!

sknis

May 27 2008, 04:23 AM

QUOTE (Jim_Hardin @ May 27 2008, 06:49 AM)

Right!

Perhaps the poster needs to do that because of all the one function free-bees that the poster adds - frequently.

golinux

May 27 2008, 07:43 AM

VLC kicks butt! It is my media player of choice on Ubuntu.

grandpabruce

May 27 2008, 09:59 AM

QUOTE (sisterscape @ May 27 2008, 10:43 AM)

VLC kicks butt! It is my media player of choice on Ubuntu.

Ubuntu isn't the operating system that the OP has.

ml

May 27 2008, 12:15 PM

QUOTE (zippy @ May 25 2008, 03:11 AM)

Does anyone know if Media Creator 7 has an encoder included in its installation.

If you have Easy Media Creator 7, you have both CinePlayer and under Extra and Utilities / Roxio Player included in the program. Both of them will play DVDs.

Plus, you probably have another DVD playing program that was installed with your burner.

Beerman

May 27 2008, 01:22 PM

Allow me to add a 'me too' for VLC Media Player. It's small, fast and plays anything you can throw at it.