I can't watch video on comp...I need this to burn...

[Bruiser]

I ripped a DVD onto my hard drive today for the first time. Now, I cannot view it for some reason because it says I do not have DVD player capabilities or something earlier. Now I try to play the file and it boots up windows media player but nothing happens.

I am trying to figure all this out before I get the DVD burner, I want to get going right when I get it.

[Bob W]

You need to buy either PowerDVD or WinDVD software (I prefer PowerDVD). I don't think there are any freeware software DVD players but hey I could be wrong. Whatever brand of DVD burner you buy will come with one or the other program unless you purchess an OEM burner.

BTW you should have had a DVD player program with your DVD drive unless you just didn't install the program.

[Vejita-sama]

There are freeware DVD players. If you look under tools Maxius(sp) is one. It use to have a link to a freeware MPEG2 codec, but it seems like the linke is down?!

[Bruiser]

My dads computer crashed last week so he had to zap the computer and start all over. So, I am guessing the dvd software was zapped as well. That must be the problem.