Well, having got WinPlayer - version 9 for Win98 - it still won;t play DVDs. Went thru all the 'MFC*.DLL incompatible' games again too...

Send to, Drag & Drop, File Open, Nada.

Bought big DVD of media players - most said they had Adware - avoided them and the Trial & Shareware stuff.

Tried Xenorate... nada.

Tried VLC - GNU based product - only 0.8 version. Well, it played, but according to the error message stream, many frames were arriving too late and were discarded, probably the reason for the jerky movements and frame freezing. Perhaps my PIII 1Ghz 512 Mb with onboard video & sound is a little slow....

The DVDs - AU$2 each - seem to be real lousy - they did play on my friend's DVD player to the TV, but the colours and contrast were all over the place (still the same on the PC), and one had a 5 sec sound track delay.