I am trying to install a samsung DVD-CDRW and i cant get the DVD player to play a DVD. I have PC Friendly and InterActual player but it keeps coming up with decoder not found. How can I solve this problem?

I (think) I had the same problem with mine. When I first tried Power DVD which came with my drive it (the program) locked up, so I downloaded another prog, Zoom Player (I uninstalled PowerDVD first). However, Zoom Player reported there were no decoders installed. But these were included in the PowerDVD package, so with both programs installed it worked. As a matter of fact, PowerDVD started working fine again after I reinstalled it. How did I get to know this? I read Zoom Player's readme file. This is what it says: First let me stress that Zoom Player is a DVD front-end and not a DVD decoder software. It will not be able to play DVD content without a 3rd party DVD decoder filter installed on the system. These DirectShow filters are usually bundled with DVD playback software in the form of ".AX" files. For example, WinDVD comes with 3 DirectShow filters by the names of: "iviaudio.ax" - WinDVD's Audio Decoder filter. "ivivideo.ax" - WinDVD's Video Decoder filter. "ivinav.ax" - WinDVD's Navigator filter. PowerDVD comes with these filters: "claud.ax" - PowerDVD's Audio Decoder filter. "clvsd.ax" - PowerDVD's Video Decoder filter. CineMaster 4 comes with these filters: "DSCinemAudioDecoder.dll" - CineMaster's Audio Decoder filter. "DSCinemVideoDecoder.dll" - CineMaster's Video Decoder filter. I don't know where to download these but you can mail me if you don't find 'em anywhere. Good luck!

Noticed that it said a whole lot more on in the file, so i put it up here: http://home.no/secretrunaway/misc/dvd.txt