Can't play DVD's in Media Player ?

[purplepatch]

I can't seem to play DVD's in Windows Media Player, is there a popular and reliable free utility that I can download to do this ? Has anyone any favorites ?

PP.

 

[Guest]

Have you tried switching it off and switching it on again ?

 

[graywolf]

Try Media Player Home Cinema, a compact, free program.

 

[mauller07]

You cant nativly play DVD's within media player unless you have a paid for MPEG2 decoding CSS decoding dvd player software installed usually

i just use Videolan, is brilliant as it plays most file formats and original DVD's

 

[aford10]

VLC is a great free software.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

[purplepatch]

Thanks for all your replies, I have VLC, but it doesn't seem to want to play DVD's, a friend suggested the drive may be faulty ?

PP

 

[aford10]

Or it may simply be a CD ROM, not a DVD drive..?

 

[graywolf]

You're welcome, PurplePatch.