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Technology Stocks : C-Cube -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Rieman who wrote (50599)	1/22/2001 1:12:32 AM
From: Stoctrash	Respond to of 50808

members.aol.com ==== 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. BACK 2 CONTENTS