I hope I can ask just one more question without irritating you, stormy
I downloaded the InterVideo WinDVD player trial mentioned in the last page. It played a DVD (only tried 1 so far) perfectly. Now it seems Windows Media Player and Real player are playing it perfectly as well. Is this like fonts or something where codecs are downloaded to a central place on the computer so they work with every player?
Man...I can whiz aroud photoshop, show you a million windows shortcuts, and do crazy things with Dreamweaver but I dont know how these damn video players work!
Basically what I need to know is...when the 30 day trial for this new player expires (if I dont get the full version) or if I unionstall it will these codecs disapear and movies will no longer work?
I'm stoked that it wasn't a hardware problem. I'd be pissed if I spent so much $$ on this drive and it didn't even play movies.
Thanks again everyone for all your help! TT is amazing...I could come on here needing to know the mating rituals of the naked mole rat and be able to find SOMEONE who could tell me.
EDIT: I also downloaded that codec pack. It just downloaded a bunch of stuff to the place I selected on my hard drive....how does a video player know where to get the stuff?