what media player to use to watch DVD movies using an external drive DVD on an Acer laptop with Win 8?

[LindaV]

I have an ACER Aspire S3 laptop with an external ASUS DVD drive.

Sometimes when I plug it in a player automatically appears but often not (like now). I do not know what player to use or where to find it on my system. (Is this another Win 8 problem?)

Any advice? (sorry, I'm not sure what category this should be in)

Thanks.

Linda

 

[smeezekitty]

VLC media player (free opensource software) will play just about anything.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html