movie watching software
 

Hi guys,

My mum has a usb stick with some films on, but when trying to watch it through media player it does not work, I have done all the updates.

Is there a program we can download to watch it?


Thanks

Re: movie watching software
 

VLC is a good one

Re: movie watching software
 

VLC player ,it will play just about anything ,in fact i don't think i have found anything it won't play .....free download

http://www.vlcmediaplayer.org/download.html

Re: movie watching software
 

VLC is a very good one

Re: movie watching software
 

you beat me because i browsed the link :D

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I use VLC too never had any problems with it playing any of my movie files.

http://www.vlcmediaplayer.org/download.html

Re: movie watching software
 

This link has some s/w that will run from memory stick.

http://portableapps.com/apps

Inc VLC

Re: movie watching software
 

I use gom

http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html

Re: movie watching software
 

you also got MediaPlayer Classic which is good...but I do swear on VLC its just brilliant

Re: movie watching software
 

MediaPlayer Classic and VLC are excellent applications. As has previously been noted, it plays just about EVERYTHING.

Windows Media Player will never get used again if you get VLC :)

Re: movie watching software
 

I use Media Player Classic as that plays everything I need, and if something does not play in that then generally VLC will play it.

I only use windows media player for audio.

VLC is used if Media Player Classic doesn't play a file, and also because it allow's me to stream from my pc to my phone over the internet as well.

Re: movie watching software
 

VLC player and then the K-Lite Codec pack will play virtually everything you throw at it and you'l have more than enough codecs.

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VLC is good, but it only uses it's own audio codecs so no 5.1/DTS, I tend to use MPC mostly now (with AC3Filter), as it send the audio to the AV to decode 5.1 and DTS (via HDMI) when watching anything on TV out.

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I output to SPIDIF and get DD and DTS to my amp through VLC

---------- Post added at 13:12 ---------- Previous post was at 13:08 ----------

Just run some tests and VLC player outputs 5.1 to speakers also

Re: movie watching software
 

Yes you're right it does, a bit of Googling and found out what I was doing wrong.

"Settings --> Preferences --> (select advanced options) --> Audio --> Output modules --> Select 'Win32 Waveout extension output' from the drop down list labelled 'Audio Output Module' -->"

Mine was set to default, I wouldn't have twigged it without a heads up. So cheers. :tu: