DVD Player (Windows)
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Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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Stable release | 6.0 (September 24, 2018[±] | )
Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
Predecessor |
DVD Player is an
Windows 98, 2000, and ME versions
When the DVD Player is launched, it searches all local drives in alphabetical order from C:, looking for a Video_TS folder. When this folder is located, the data file within it is loaded, and video streaming begins. If this folder exists on a drive that comes before the DVD drive, the player will try to play the data in the first folder it finds.
In Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows 2000 RTM, DVD Player only plays DVDs if a hardware-based MPEG decoder is present. In Windows ME and Windows 2000 SP1, DVD Player supports software-based MPEG decoders.[2][3]
DVD Player was dropped in Windows XP in favor of the DVD functionality introduced into Windows Media Player. While the DVDPlay executable still resides in %Windir%\system32, it simply executes Windows Media Player. On Windows 8, Windows Media Center and DVD playback support were relegated to a premium add-on for Windows 8 Pro, citing the costs of licensing the decoders and the market moving away from DVD-Video.[4]
Windows 10 version
Windows DVD Player was made available for Windows 10 on desktop computers to provide DVD playback functionality.
References
- ^ "Chapter 12 - Multimedia". TechNet. Microsoft. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ^ "Ask the Windows 2000 Dev Team". TechNet. Microsoft. 5 January 2000.
- ^ "Description of DVD Player in Windows Millennium Edition". Support (2.0 ed.). Microsoft. June 19, 2014. Archived from the original on July 10, 2015.
- PC Magazine. Ziff Davis. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
- ^ PCWorld. IDG.
- ^ Weir, Andy (29 July 2015). "Microsoft rolls out Windows DVD Player for Windows 10 users who used to have Media Center". Neowin. Neowin LLC.
- ^ "Buy Windows DVD Player". Microsoft Store. Microsoft Corporation. 20 July 2015.
External links
- Windows DVD Player on Microsoft Store