Playing DVDs in WMP/ Extracting audio from DVDs

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Playing DVDs in WMP/ Extracting audio from DVDs

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As the title hints, I am having a problem. Ever since I got a new HDD, Windows Media Player will not play dvds, it says I need to buy an encoder. So, does anyone know how to solve this?

Related: I need a way to get the audio from DVDs, any ideas?
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I would use the VLC Media Player. It's free and its really good. Plus you can rip an entire DVD, but I'm not sure about taking the sound off, but maybe though.
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Wonderboy wrote:I would use the VLC Media Player. It's free and its really good. Plus you can rip an entire DVD, but I'm not sure about taking the sound off, but maybe though.

I have VLC, But, I am not going to go into why I dont want to use it.

What could I use to rip off the dvd then?
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To play DVD's, if you don't like VLC, download the KLite Codec pack. As for the audio, I don't really know
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Once you're able to get the DVD's to play, you can try recording its audio straight off from your computer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfdzx7mr51Y
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Thanks everyone, I think thats everything I need, unless anyone knows how to get audio from a WII game?
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While I believe it is somewhat acceptable to record another game's sound externally (Recording the sound with a... recorder pressed against the speakers) , ripping the actually audio from the disc is illegal to my knowledge.
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