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Does VLC sort out the DVD playback issue on Windows 7 starter on netbooks?

  • 15-08-2011 12:56am
    #1
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,813 ✭✭✭


    Hi.
    I'm looking at getting a new netbook (replacement for a faulty one).
    Problem is all the new netbooks now come with Windows 7 Starter which has a well-known issue with not being able to play DVDs (from external hard drives).
    Can anyone confirm for certain if installing VLC resolves this playback issue on W7 starter.
    Thanks.


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  • #2
    DjFlin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭DjFlin


    Do you mean ripped DVDs being played from an external hard drive? Or DVDs being played from an External DVD Drive?

    I've got a Windows 7 Starter Netbook and I use the default media player for watching ripped videos. I haven't had any trouble with it in the 8 months I've had the netbook.


  • #3
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,092 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    take everything wrote: »
    Hi.
    I'm looking at getting a new netbook (replacement for a faulty one).
    Problem is all the new netbooks now come with Windows 7 Starter which has a well-known issue with not being able to play DVDs (from external hard drives).
    Can anyone confirm for certain if installing VLC resolves this playback issue on W7 starter.
    Thanks.

    From a quick look problem appears to be to be entirely that that Win 7 starter does not include the proper MPEG-2 codecs for DVD playback by default. That being the case then VLC should work perfectly :)

    If you really want to use media player (While not as pretty VLC is the biz IMO) then the k-lite codec pack will do the job.


  • #4
    Bellu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭Bellu


    Hmm, VLC works great on my Mac, but sometimes occurred problem on the Win 7, and I have to use aneesoft to do converting DVD movies to videos for playing back, and so far works great, saved much time on problem entangling.


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