Is there a way to read DVDs with a regular CD-ROM drive?
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Is there a way to read DVDs with a regular CD-ROM drive?
I am really mad that I have DVDs and no player! https://forums.windrivers.com/
Absolutely not. CD's and DVD's are totally different formats. You need an extremely narrow laser to read a DVD, and the laser on a CD drive is much too wide.
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Actually, there is a way. Only when the DVD is not copyrighted. I've seen a DVD demo by ATI playing on a regular CD-ROM reader.
But there is no way you can play a DVD movie on a common CD-ROM.
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I have some no-copyrighted DVD's here, Alien, which are off the front of various magazines so I tried this and unfortunatly none of them work as the CD lens cannot read the full data on a DVD due to the way the DVD is written. This is on a number of CD-Rom's as well. DVD-Rom reads them all fine.Quote:
<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by AlienDyne:
Actually, there is a way. Only when the DVD is not copyrighted. I've seen a DVD demo by ATI playing on a regular CD-ROM reader.
But there is no way you can play a DVD movie on a common CD-ROM.
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You sure that wasn't a Video CD? Video CD's will in fact play from a regular CDROM and ATI's MultiMedia Center plays them....Quote:
<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by AlienDyne:
Actually, there is a way. Only when the DVD is not copyrighted. I've seen a DVD demo by ATI playing on a regular CD-ROM reader.
But there is no way you can play a DVD movie on a common CD-ROM.
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Yes, I'm possitive! It is a DVD disc. It has the DVD label on and you can recognize it when you look at its surface. I had a Teac CD-ROM drive when I played it using PowerDVD. I'm sure about it, but now I'm not sure about the rest non-copyrighted ones.Quote:
<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by sowulo:
You sure that wasn't a Video CD? Video CD's will in fact play from a regular CDROM and ATI's MultiMedia Center plays them....
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