I balked at purchasing DVDFab (on sale for 25% off the normal $59.95 price) because it somehow didn't seem right that I should have to pay for a DVD player, when for so many years Windows Media Player was included with Windows, and free - and it worked great.īut, after going back to VLC several times during my brief trial of DVDFab, and becoming increasingly frustrated, I finally did purchase a license for DVDFab 6. Not only do DVD's play in DVDFab, the clarity (sharpness and overall brilliance) is far superior to what I was seeing with VLC, and perhaps even better than the old Windows Media Player in Windows 7. So I downloaded and installed their free trial. Then I searched for 'best DVD player for Windows 10', and the one which received the most hits was DVDFab player. That had me thinking it was really a hardware problem. I even tried booting into Ubuntu 18.04.3, but no luck there either. I was pulling my hair out, and ready to pull my computer's DVD player out, but I have a 2nd DVD player in the machine, and it produced the same non-result with VLC. It simply would not open when I inserted a disk, and when I selected the disk from the Media menu within VLC, the disk would not play. I did that, but for some reason, there came a point where I could no longer play a DVD in VLC. I did a lot of Googling, and found that setting output to DirectX might help. I guess it was the micro-stutter that was causing the drop in picture clarity. The picture wasn't as sharp, and there appeared to be constant 'micro-stutter'. I could have lived without the transport controls, but I began to notice that the video quality for (commercially produced) DVD's was not as good as it was with Media Player. I played with all of the settings, but could not get that bar to appear as it should have (when the mouse cursor is near the bottom of the screen). I could hit the spacebar to pause, but could not advance or rewind, or see how much of the video was remaining. I could never get the transport controls to show while in full-screen mode. Unfortunately, my experience with VLC on Windows 10 is not so great.įor one thing, I find its UI kind of clunky. After all, it's the most popular free media player out there. I used it on Ubuntu, and was fairly satisfied with it, so I figured it would be a good choice for Windows 10. So, I downloaded and installed the free VLC media player. While it does appear that there is a version available in the Microsoft store, I read that it is not so great. It appears that Windows 10 has 'matured', and Microsoft has been listening to what users are saying.īut there is one thing I really miss in Windows 10 Windows Media Player. So far, I am pretty happy with the OS much more so than when I first installed 10 as a 2nd OS in a multiple boot system (sharing with Win 7 & Ubuntu). I migrated from Windows 7 (ultimate) to Windows 10 (pro) on Jan 1.
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