| DVD Player A component of Microsoft Windows |
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| Included with | Microsoft Windows 98, Me, 2000 |
| Also available for | Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7 |
| Replaced by | Windows Media Player |
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| Discontinued | |
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| CD Player | |
DVD Player (also known as dvdplay.exe) is a computer program included in some versions of Microsoft Windows that autoplays a DVD disc if a supported MPEG-2 decoder was present. DVD Player was introduced in Windows 98[1].
When the DVD Player is launched it searches all local drives in alphabetical order from C:, looking for a Video_TS folder. When this folder is located, the data file within it is loaded, and video streaming begins. If this folder exists on a drive that comes before the DVD drive, the player will try to play the data in the first folder it finds.
In Windows 98/Me and Windows 2000, DVDPlay.exe only plays DVDs if a hardware-based decoder is present. In Windows Me, DVDPlay supports software-based decoders.[2]. With Windows XP, DVDPlay.exe was dropped as a separate application in favor of DVD functionality introduced into Windows Media Player. While the DVDPlay executable still resides in %Windir%system32, it simply executes Windows Media Player, but the Windows 2000 version can run on Windows XP/Vista/7 (With bugs). However, the full-working hardware-based version was still included with Windows XP pre-RC1.
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