why wont my windows media player play dvds?

Austin

rencently i had to delete real player because it refuses to play my dvds unless i pay 30 bucks to upgrade, well they can go to hell on that one. so i tried using windows media player and it wont even register that theres a dvd in the laptop. then i went through my computers online app store and they dont have any media players that play dvds, its all just online streaming. how can i fix this? or is there any trustworthy alternative to media player that plays actual dvds? i refuse to pay for something that should be free

Answer
Hi, If you have win8 then microsoft took out the decoder to play DVD's due to third party cost. You can either get a codec pack, or get an alternative player. I do not recommend codec packs, they will eventually mess up your computer, best codec pack is "shark007.net". Links below.

The best free players are VLC media player by videolan, media player classic home cinema, KM player, and Daum PotPlayer. They play pretty much anything including DVD's. My favorite is Daum PotPlayer.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ (Official site of VLC player by videolan. Pay attention while installing, if you don't want files associated with VLC then uncheck those options during setup. If you want after installing you can right click on the video file and choose to play with VLC.

To play DVD with VLC - open VLC - in taskbar at top click on media - then click open disk.

http://www.dvbsupport.net/download/index.php?act=view&id=230 (Daum PotPlayer latest stable version. Click on the big blue button to download it. You don't have to install the potplayer live files and you can ignore any directx update message. You MUST right click the daum icon and run as administrator to set file associations in windows 7. You might change the skin also to original_en.dsf

http://www.dvbsupport.net/download/index.php?act=view&id=268 (Daum PotPlayer beta update. If you want, install this after installing PotPlayer above. This is optional.)

http://www.dvbsupport.net/info/potplayer.html (Daum PotPlayer version history/fixes.)

After installing open it up and right click on it - in the video tab - set video renderer to "overlay mixer" for some older computers, or keep it on "evr custom present" for newer computers. You may want to change the skin & aspect ratio options also. You can manage file associations - right click - preferences - association tab.

In win7 right click Daum icon and run as admin before making changes in settings. Also go in preferences - general - touch - then disable touch screen.

To play a DVD with PotPlayer - right click on it on the second open tab popout click "open DVD' or on the last tab to open your "CD/DVD" drive

http://mpc-hc.org/ ( Official site of media player classic home cinema. Available in 32-bit or 64-bit and will download from sourceforge.)

I hope this helps you out. Good luck!

i am trying to play a DVD on my computer and windows media player is asking me to download a mpeg-2 decoder..?

JJ S

why do I have to pay for it when I go to the microsoft page? is there a free one I can download that will work with windows media player?

Answer
what i like to do is to download the PowerDVD 7 trial (its free)

http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/download_hotlink.jsp

i run it once and uninstall it ... it leaves the codec on your system. and windows media player will use that codec from than on.

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