Posted by Rick Merrill on 07/27/06 13:02

Ken Maltby wrote:

> "Rick Merrill" <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:taGdnW4ampJ0ElvZnZ2dnUVZ_rednZ2d@comcast.com...
>
>>aßigMeanie wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:28:17 -0400, "Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>2 commercial products are Cyberlink PowerDVD and Intervideo WinDVD 7.
>>>>There are undoubtedly others.
>>>>
>>>>Of the 2 cited, I personally have a strong preference for PowerDVD, since
>>>>it starts faster, seems to have more / better options, and is trouble
>>>>free on this machine. Up this most recent release 7 of both products, I
>>>>preferred WinDVD.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Smarty
>>>>
>>>>
>>>><wrreisen2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:1153767214.465359.239230@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>Please could you recommend a peice of windows software that allows a
>>>>>DVD's file contents to be played as a DVD with menu etc when the files
>>>>>are contained within a folder on the hard disk?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>a decent free program is media player classic
>>>http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=Media_Player_Classic
>>>
>>
>>Does that actually run the MENUS from the DVD, much less
>>from the files on the disk?
>>
>
>
> Media Player Classic is probably the best DirectShow based
> player there is.
>
> If you right click on the screen and select from "File" you
> will have a number of options for selecting material to play
> including two ways to play an authored DVD both with
> functional menus if you want. There are also various ways
> to find files to play and it can sometimes connect to a capture
> or TV card.
>
> Luck;
> Ken
>
>

I have seen in a similar thread in another group that you can make an
"ISO disk copy" of the DVD onto the hard drive then play the whole
thing, including menus, from that copy.

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