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Windows cracks me up.. lol..

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Lionheart

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Tonight, I went to watch a movie DVD in WinXP mode.

Media Player says it cannot play the DVD and asks to either close or go to online help. I select online help. I figure its a driver thing.

Online help says I have the option of purchasing a Media Player DVD player driver from several groups.

lol..

I look up online to find a freeware DVD player. I find one that is free and download it. It cannot play it, the video is schrapnelled...



It makes me laugh that in Mac mode, I can put in a DVD and it starts playing. In Windows, I have to put in money.


At least someone can make a OS that can handle things like media..


Sorry.. venting..


I think I will try to load Mac OSX on my hp... (cant afford the MacBookPro yet).


Bill
 
Bill,
For some bizarre reason Windows Media Player and the OEM Movie Player went stupid and did not recognize any disk in my DVD drive so I d/l'ed VLC Media Player by VideoLAN ( http://www.videolan.org/ ). It's freeware and plays my DVD's just fine. :)
 
Yeah me to Tarps, the VLK player will handle a lot of file types. Even a little more obscure things like the later "mkv" high definition downloadable file types.
 
use VLC or the classic media player. The new one is terrible! Yeah, windows in general is not good about media. Have you ever used the "Media" edition of XP? It's a joke! The UI is so awkward i don't know how it made it past QA...

I like media classic cuz you can use the arrow keys to scroll frame by frame (cant do this in VLC or Media Player)....very important in my line of work.

But quicktime's got the best frame-by-frame arrow scrolling...so smooth. We use quicktime to watch movies "in reverse" a lot.....to check for bad animation, etc...

-feng

-fz
 
Yep I agree VLK or KLite never found a media they will not play. Bill is right about the MAC OS. It would have been nice for Windows to include a media player that does it all.
Ted
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that's strange to me. i watch dvd's all the time on my computer. i have xp/sp3 and wmp11. i never have had those problems.

that said, i usually get a better picture using the dvx player. another freebie that works great
 
Thanks guys. I'll try VLK.


ChaCha,

Yes. There are people out there that have loaded up Mac OSX on regular PC's. You need certain programs to 'help' it as its designed to only be installed on Apple hardware, but many people do install it on regular computers.

Google Rebel EFI and you should find their website concerning this subject.


For me, I was stuck in Windows, unable to go to Mac Mode, (downloading photo real Arizona scenery) and just wanted to watch my movie while it was downloading.

I guess I could download in Mac mode and transfer the files via flash drives.. I didnt think of that. It was late, lol.. argh.


Sorry guys to bash Windows. I was venting. If Windows wish to look good, I would think they would fix their Media Player so that it plays common Media. If WinXP and 'the v word' cannot play a common DVD, then why will people even get Win7? Or is it that they make their media players to only run on the latest OS they are selling, and updates cause the older versions to stop working? (nah... that would be evil...! ).


Bill
 
Chacha said:
... can this be done?

... can I load Mac OSX on my Sony Vaio? :bump:
Click to expand...

Maybe is the answer.

First off you need to know which CPU you have.

MAC OSX only runs on Intel Processors if you have an AMD then you are out of luck.

Which processors are supported (mind you this would not be a supported install) will also be a concern.

Then there are questions to ask.

How do you want to impliment it?

You can wipe the whole drive and start fresh with strickly a MAC OSX install.

You might be able to install OSX in another partition on your drive and do a dual boot.

And lastly you might be able to run MAC OSX inside your existing Windows OS using Sun Microsystems Virtual Box http://www.virtualbox.org/. Keep in mind this option has you running two OS Systems at the same time. Which limits resources.

Trying to install it in the virtual box would probably answer the question on if you could do the dual boot or the stand alone. If you were successful doing it as a virtual machine you should be able to do it the other two ways.

Of course I can not say you could do it any of these ways as I have never done it with MAC but I have with Ubuntu.

Since MAC is based on the UNIX system and UNIX is basically the father of Linux I would guess it could be done.

Now there are even more questions that need to be asked but I would be willing to bet it can be done. The question is how new is you Sony and what specs does it have.

In the end it will be a tremendous amount of work to do it. These things never go as smoothly as you want.

Screen shot is of my laptop with both XP home and Ubuntu 9.04 running at the same time one on each monitor.

Note:

A number of months ago you could have bought the MAC OS X Leapord OS from newegg.com now I do not see it listed. In fact I see no MAC OS listed so another question becomes where do you get the OS?
 
Lionheart said:
Sorry guys to bash Windows. I was venting. If Windows wish to look good, I would think they would fix their Media Player so that it plays common Media. If WinXP and 'the v word' cannot play a common DVD, then why will people even get Win7?
Click to expand...

heck i bet everyone here has a windows frustration story.
the thing that now puzzles me is why mine can do it, and so many others seem not to be able to.

i can pop a dvd into my dvd drive and wmp11 comes up automatically. then i can navigate the on screen menus with the mouse. it never occoured to me that ability might be unusual.

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I have no problems with watching DVDs either, so I can't answer as to why others are having problems either. XP SP3 and WMP11. Didn't have any issues in earlier versions (XP or WMP) either.

That said, I don't have autoplay on, so I have to start Media Player. However, I usually start a different (freeware) one that has the ability to step forward or back single frames. Can't remember the name right now, and I'm not at my computer to check, but I don't think it has been mentioned. It might be AVS DVD Player.

Brian
 
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