Sunday, October 15, 2006

How to play a DVD movie in Windows XP

To play DVDs using the WMP, you must have a DVD-ROM drive and a software or hardware DVD decoder installed on your computer. By default, Windows does not include a DVD decoder.
Check here for Windows XP–compatible DVD decoders:-http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/plugins.aspx

And the following utility will be handy to determine whether any decoder is installed or not;or whether that's one compatible with WMP or not:-
Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DE1491AC-0AB6-4990-943D-627E6ADE9FCB&displaylang=en

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