Sorry John -

Win98SE PIII 1G 512Mb - onboard video, sound & Lan port. MBd 815EFV. Had to do a Mb flash & load several special drivers to get Win98SE to talk to it. 2nd hand - hand me down 'obsolete' box - superseded by company upgrade policy!

DVD drive is a HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4320B (LG branded) CD RW - DVD reader only - no useful sw that I known of came with it. I installed the system myself - the HDs were nuked/nulled.

Neither Nero or Roxio installed - god alone knows what demo versions of any of those may be on my PC Mag CDs.....

Windows 'botch up player' is sidelined for most things - I am an old Irfanview guy :-) - will see if I can enable WMP for the DVD - have several versions lying around...

Have several video & sound players (freeware) around - but too many to try - also when I insert the DVD it immediately tries to play something - but there is no association for it. Was trying to make it work manually - but the GNU media layer Classic (second latest version - have just got Feb 2005 version) doesn't know the codecs - offers to get them from the web - but they don't know them either...

Thanks for the help though John.

Robin