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I'm running 98SE on this dinosaur. That may matter, may not. Question is:

Is there a way to watch NTSC and PAL DVD's from the hard drive without first burning them to a DVD? I was looking around the forums last night looking for this solution. Closest I could come was

1) Downloading a virtual DVD player
2) Burning the files to a virtual DVD Iso
3) Playing that ISO in Alcohol

Is this my only option? I mean, that's a lot of software and a lot of steps. This old girl (slug really) doesn't need additional software that I'm not going to use all that often. I thought I did a thorough search here in Technobabble but I'm not coming up with a solution.

Thanks

Oh... just thought of another method: Converting the files to MPEG or AVI (or whatever.) Don't want to do this because I don't like converting material, especially if it's lossy once you convert it.

(BTW I do intend to upgrade my system *AND* get a DVD burner. I don't want to stay in (what's now) the stone age forever.)