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Author Message   Rocketsprink Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 06:36 pm:        my brother in law, an I.T. guy, "fixed" my computer, but in doing so, wiped out it's ability to play DVD's. I was able to rip and burn DVD's and watch them before he repaired it. I had Nero before. Anyone have a suggestion as to a program to replace it with? Thanks   Ft_bstrd Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 06:43 pm:        I've been using Plato. It's pretty good.   Birdy Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 06:44 pm:        Any idea what he did? I'd try a system restore to a point before he "worked" on it first myself. Then I'd try to uninstall NERO and reinstall it. I've use NERO for years and never have found anything that runs on Windows I like as well.   Indy_bueller Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 07:03 pm:        You might just need to install codecs to play DVDs.   Natexlh1000 Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 07:15 pm:        My favorites: for playing media: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ For burning CDs and DVDs: http://cdburnerxp.se/   Lost_in_ohio Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 07:41 pm:        Nate is correct that is what I use and best of all it is free.   Reepicheep Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 07:48 pm:        Videolan does a great job of transcoding as well (except when it doesn't).   Froggy Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 07:54 pm:        Rocket, PM me, I got a buttload of software I can send you.   Dbird29 Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 11:19 pm:        He probably upgraded to Windows Media Player 11 which does not include the DVD (MPEG2) decoder codec. Guess what? Yep, got to spend money. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/play er/plugins.aspx#DVDDecoder   Vortec57 Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 11:58 am:        I switched from Nero to DVD fab, it's WAY easier and much more reliable of a burn   Nautique4life Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 02:57 pm:        +3 for Nero. Sonic DigitalMedia is what I use at work. It is solid.   Haven564 Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 03:00 pm:        Rocket PM me your Address if you want and I will send you a copy of Nero. It is an older version but does the job.

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