DVD software for Toshiba laptop

[mikeylad]

Having recently suffered a catastrophic fit of laptop trantrum-throwing, i've had to wipe the insolent little bastard and start from scratch. As part of this upsetting episode, i've lost the software for Toshi's DVD player.

The little blighter is a TSW-253 IIRC, and the DVD-player was installed from new.

Can anyone point me towards somewhere where i can find a DVD driver? preferably a free one...i'm not keen on spending any more on my least favourite item of electronics if all time!

[bigtone]

I'm running a Tosh Sat Pro 6100 and have a hot swapable DVD drive. If you let me know which files you need, I can mail them over.

Tony

[mikeylad]

Cheers Tony,

You have mail! thanks for your help,

Best Regards,
Mike

[GregE240]

Mike, did you get this sorted?

[mikeylad]

no i didn't, Greg can you help?

Go ahead, make my day.

[GregE240]

I'll certainly try. What OS have you got on it?

And...I assume the DVD player is seen by the OS: you just want the codecs to play DVDs...right?

[mikeylad]

Greg,
i'm running Win2000ME. The DVD player is an integral one, and its playing data and music CDs fine. the computer is a Satellite 1805

I think i just need the software that takes the DVD data from the disk to display. The user interface.

Cheers,
Mike

[GregE240]

Mike,

Got a decent Internet connection there?

[ErnestM]

WinDVD

www.intervideo.com/

ErnestM

[GregE240]

You've got to pay for that one, Ernest. What's all that about?

[umar b]

GregE240 said: I'll certainly try. What OS have you got on it?

And...I assume the DVD player is seen by the OS: you just want the codecs to play DVDs...right?

I am having the same problem as well, (don't mean to hi jack he thread!)

i have a laptop with a Toshiba dvd player but can not play any dvds, i am looking for the codecs if possible, i am using windows XP, if that helps

Thanks in advanced

Umaar

[ErnestM]

GregE240 said: You've got to pay for that one, Ernest. What's all that about?

Get the Windows XP media player "add-in". I think it's called the Xpack. It is the cheapest and probably easiest to configure...

ErnestM

[GregE240]

umar b said:I am having the same problem as well, (don't mean to hi jack he thread!)

i have a laptop with a Toshiba dvd player but can not play any dvds, i am looking for the codecs if possible, i am using windows XP, if that helps

Thanks in advanced

Umaar

Umaar,

Drop me a mail - I can help you out.

[guysh]

What was the version of the DVD software you had before ? Compaq's and Dells come with their branded version of WinDVD and Intervideo which will only work with their hardware and you can download them from their sites maybe you could download the TOsh version from somewhere?

[loaf]

Windows Media Player 9 apparently has DVD-support built-in - don't know how good it is, I use WinDVD Platinum from Intervideo - but you can download WMP9 from www.eu.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en

good luck...