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Samdy Gray
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Re: cheap and cheerful laptop for a 10 year old
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Media Player 11 should play DVDs by default.
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Arriba
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Quote from: Samdy Gray on Friday, January 7, 2011, 10:52:46
Media Player 11 should play DVDs by default.
still needs a decoder.
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pauld
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Quote from: arriba on Friday, January 7, 2011, 10:47:15
is it free,and will it work with windows media player?
VLC is free and is a media player itself. It's a little barebones but I've always found it will play just about anything you throw at it when other players give up the ghost
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Peter Venkman
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Quote from: arriba on Friday, January 7, 2011, 11:18:40
still needs a decoder.
See my post above.
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Quote from: jjedmunds on Friday, January 7, 2011, 11:45:38
See my post above.
thanks jj.for some reason when i went to new posts it skipped past yours and went to samdy's.
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Peter Venkman
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Quote from: arriba on Friday, January 7, 2011, 11:52:57
thanks jj.for some reason when i went to new posts it skipped past yours and went to samdy's.
No worries Arriba, I use that codec and it plays everything I have put into it so far.
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downloaded vlc.works well.thanks stfcballmouth and pauld.
jj, i didn't go with your reccomendation as it wanted to add stuff to the toolbar etc.means i have to fuck about with it so ditched it for that reason.cheers anyway..
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