Monday, February 09, 2009

problem playing a movie on new laptop with Mircosoft Vista Home

This low-rent version of the operating system (Vista home) doesn't let you watch DVDs with Windows Media Player. I also had problems with the built-in HP player (i.e. it wasn't working). I tried to download missing codecs, but when that didn't immediately bear fruit, I found a free mediaplayer download that does play DVDs (and also, for some reason - maybe a codec had been missing - made the built-in HP player start working too).

(Good strategy, Microsoft!)

Since JMJ has the same laptop, I thought I'd post this for him here to shortcut a solution for him in case he encounters the same problem.

You can read the CNET review and download KMPlayer here.

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