It's completely free and works on loads of operating systems. It's the VLC Media Player.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

It's 100% free, open source, and it's very lightweight. Plays all sorts of video and audio files as well as commercially encoded DVD's. Surely worth a try just out of curiosity? I put this on the laptops at work now!

LOL, looks cool, I've seen it before, though. I have enough players anyway!

Heh, same here! Inundated in players...

Anyway, enough of my personal life.

This was always something that puzzled me when I reinstalled Windows XP on my first computer. Why wouldn't it play back DVD's? Why did I need to purchase some software just so I can play back DVD's.. on a computer!? So thanks to the guys behind VLC media player for creating a free solution.

Hmm, I have loads of DVD players, all free, well came packaged with stuff, but still, for me, that's free!

You mean included in the price

LOL, true. I don't care, I have them, might aswell use them.

VLC player is also the most powerful multimedia playback software available on Linux. Just thought I'd share that

Nice. Shame I don't use Linux, then...