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FREE DVD PLAYER
The 12-2-99 Win9x Registry ©Trick in REGISTRY.TXT, part of W95-11D.ZIP:
FREE DVD PLAYER
Do you have a DVD drive attached to and properly configured in your computer?
If you do, here is a little Registry hack which allows you to play your DVD movies using Microsoft Windows Media Player2 v6.4 (WMP6) 32-bit for Windows 9x/NT [3.5 MB, free].
If you are using Microsoft Windows Media Player2 v7.0 (WMP7) 32-bit for Windows 98/2000/ME [9 MB, free], note that the DVD play feature has been disabled. :(
After installing WMP6, run Regedit and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Settings
Right-click in the right hand pane -> select New -> String Value -> name it EnableDVDUI. Double-click on it -> type yes in the Value data box -> click OK.
Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows when done.
From now on you can open Media Player2 -> click File -> Open -> select DVD -> finally hit the Play button.
You'll also notice a new DVD icon which shows the DVD menu when clicked.
UPDATES:
"This is true, you do get a DVD player, but it's very restricted. The DVD is totally hardware oriented, not software bound like PowerDVD or CineMaster."
[Thank you Andreas Rosén (disobay@telia.com)!]
You can also use the Microsoft free dedicated DVD Player included on the Windows 98/98 SE(U) Setup CD-ROM. Pop in your Setup CD (replace the CD-ROM/DVD drive letter if different on your system) and then run:
EXTRACT /A /L %temp% D:\WIN98\BASE4.CAB DVD*.*
Now you should see these 5 files extracted into your TEMP directory (default is C:\Windows\Temp): DVDPLAY.CHM, DVDPLAY.CNT, DVDPLAY.EXE, DVDRGN.EXE and DVDPLAY.HLP. Move the .CHM, .CNT and .HLP files to C:\Windows\Help and the two executables (.EXE) to C:\Windows\System (if you installed Windows 98/98 SE into C:\Windows, otherwise sustitute the folder names to match yours).
Create a shortcut to Dvdplay.exe, eventually on your Desktop, if you watch a lot of DVD movies. :)
Note that you also need to install the 32-bit DVD Drivers/Codecs, i.e. Microsoft DirectX Media 6 or CineMaster, to be able to use ANY DVD player.
DVDPlay is a primitive (lacks custom controls like brightness, color etc), but software based DVD player, and requires a fast CPU (Intel Pentium Pro/II/III/IV/Celeron/Xeon or AMD K6/K7/Athlon/Duron/Thunderbird) for optimal performance.
[Thank you Terry Bethlehem (fish_butt@hotmail.com) for suggesting this!]
FYI:
DVD InfoMatrix.
The 7th Zone.
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