HOW TO WATCH DVD ON WINDOWS 8?

me.

I FEEL REALLY STUPID, OKAY.
So like, I'm "borrowing" my brother's new fancy Windows 8 laptop to watch my Bourne movies that I just bought a;lsdfj;alsdjfasf and I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO LIKE WATCH IT. On my old laptop (Windows 7) all I had to do was pop a DVD in, the Media Player screen showed up, and the movie started playing like automatically. So how can I watch a DVD???????? And I really don't want to like download any special app because it will take forever and yeah.


Pleeeeeeeeeease help me.
thankss.xx
UHHHHH, EXCUUUUUUUUUUSE ME MR. BC DUDE GUY MAN. Okay, I just think that there is a simple way to watch this movie without downloading an app, ALRIGHT?!??! I just think I'm missing something here... SMARTASS.

Answer
Sadly, they took out the DVD playback in Windows 8 so you can't use Windows Media Player for that anymore. Kinda lame, I know.

Search his PC for other playback software like PowerDVD or WinDVD or just download VLC and play your movie that way.

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

- Dominic

DVD Player software?

amanda a

Where can I download a DVD player & burner software for my computer?

Answer
Acala DivX DVD Player Assist - Convert AVI (DivX, XviD, MS MPEG4, Uncompressed, Cinepak and other); MPEG (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Video); WMV (Windows Media Video); Quick Time (Apple video format for Macintosh) video clips to DivX DVD Player compatible movies and burning. Acala DivX DVD Player Assist is an easy and professional DivX DVD Player assist program. With Acala DivX DVD Player Assist, you are able to compress over 10 favorite movies into one DVD movies and burn it onto DVD Disc, and then watch them on home DVD Player ,car DVD Player or any other portable DVD Player. Acala DivX DVD Player Assist is able to convert AVI (DivX, XviD, MS MPEG4, Uncompressed, Cinepak and other); MPEG (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Video); WMV (Windows Media Video); Quick Time (Apple video format for Macintosh) video clips to DivX DVD Player compatible DVD movies and burn to DVD Disc, with fast speed and hight quality. With Acala DivX DVD Player Assist, you will be able to enjoy over 10 movies on one DVD Disc on your DVD Player. It also supports Automatically Shut down your computer after the conversion had been done. it means you can just go to sleep or have a cup of coffee, Let your computer do all the jobs and automatically shutdown when all jobs are done.
Key Feature:
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2.Support Quick Time (Apple video format for Macintosh).
3.Over 10 movies on one DVD Disc.
4.Best quality: the support for the latest industry standards ensures the videos you create with best picture and audio quality.
5.User-friendly interface : one click solution program, need not any basic knowledge.
6.Automatically Shutdown Computer.
7.Support Batch files conversion.
8.Support WMV (Windows Media Video).
9.Support MPEG (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Video).
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11.Saved output DVD movies onto hard disk.
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13.Burn source saved DVD movies from hard disk to DVD Disc.

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I have a Windows Movie Maker Project on Windows 8. How do I burn a CD/DVD to watch on my DVD player.?

Q. I want to be able to put the project onto a CD for DVD viewing.
I wonder can it be put on a thumb drive to hook right into the TV.
These are two seperate requests. Please advise and you will make my GrandDaughters day.

Answer
Before you do anything, save the project and then, on the right side of the Home tab, click "Save Movie". No device will play a Movie Maker project. In the "Common Settings" section of the Save Movie dropdown, I have "Burn DVD" but I'm on a Windows 7 machine that has Windows DVD Maker. I don't know if you'll also have this setting in Windows 8.

Unfortunately, Microsoft dropped Windows DVD Maker from Windows 8 so you have to use 3rd party DVD authoring software. Lesson: DVD or image burning software just burns copies of files onto disks. DVD authoring software adds the encoding that allows a disk to play in a DVD player.

About the easiest free DVD authoring program I'm familiar with is DVDFlick.
http://www.dvdflick.net/
Be forewarned that free DVD authoring software has a reputation for being buggy. I've used DVDFlick and DVDStyler (a little more complicated than DVDFlick) with no problems but others have reported them.

Re copying your video onto a flashdrive. I've seen some TVs that will recognize and allow you to open image and video files and run them - mostly newer TVs. I've seen some TVs that won't. You'd have to try it. I'm guessing that if the TV has USB, it's probably able to open and run files.

Windows 8 Customization?

Q. I just got the Lenovo Yoga Ideapad and was wondering if the start menu is customizable. I would like to add a photo for the background or just a different design. Also, I see that when watching a movie, it makes me watch it in media center NOT windows media player (i dont like it.)

thanks!

Answer
The start screen has a number of backgrounds to choose from but you can't add your own by default.

Thankfully someone has stepped up to the challenge and created a program to do the job.

http://www.ghacks.net/2012/10/21/customize-the-windows-8-start-screen-background/

Windows 8 doesn't have movie DVD playback by default. You can buy a separate DVD playback program or you can download VLC. I suggest VLC, it's free.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

- Dominic

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How to make a dvd with windows 8 movie maker?

ME

I need help, I need to make a dvd and I cant do it with windows 8 movie maker

Answer
Hi There,

have had the same problem using Windows Movie maker using Win 7 home.
I could make a video , edits, transitions, title ,etc and burn to a DVD.
The computer could play it but not our home DVD player.

After trying several other programs there is one that is small, simple and it will burn a DVD that will work on our home DVD player.

The one that works is "Freemake Video Converter". It is free and allows joining several clips together. You can even "join" clips in different formats and it converts them to the format you select or will burn to a DVD-R disk.

It can open almost any format and save to most formats. If you want to burn a DVD you just select "DVD" and insert the DVD disk and click on "Burn"...that's all you have to configure.

One thing I found was you need to burn DVD-R (not DVD+R ). The plus R disks did not work for me. I doubt that rewritable DVD work work too.

Here is the link for the free download...http://www.freemake.com/
Hope this helps,
Al

HOW TO WATCH DVD ON WINDOWS 8?

me.

I FEEL REALLY STUPID, OKAY.
So like, I'm "borrowing" my brother's new fancy Windows 8 laptop to watch my Bourne movies that I just bought a;lsdfj;alsdjfasf and I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO LIKE WATCH IT. On my old laptop (Windows 7) all I had to do was pop a DVD in, the Media Player screen showed up, and the movie started playing like automatically. So how can I watch a DVD???????? And I really don't want to like download any special app because it will take forever and yeah.


Pleeeeeeeeeease help me.
thankss.xx
UHHHHH, EXCUUUUUUUUUUSE ME MR. BC DUDE GUY MAN. Okay, I just think that there is a simple way to watch this movie without downloading an app, ALRIGHT?!??! I just think I'm missing something here... SMARTASS.

Answer
Sadly, they took out the DVD playback in Windows 8 so you can't use Windows Media Player for that anymore. Kinda lame, I know.

Search his PC for other playback software like PowerDVD or WinDVD or just download VLC and play your movie that way.

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

- Dominic

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What is the difference between windows 7 vs 8?

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Shariful I

I want to know about windows 7 and windows 8 operating system. Their system requirements and some information.

Answer
Windows 8 and 7 pretty much have identical system requirements.

Windows 8
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/system-requirements

Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2
RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit)
Hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver

Windows 7
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/system-requirements

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

As their names imply, Windows 8 is newer than 7. 8 is faster to start, handles battery life better, has improved security, and supports new tech like USB 3.0 right out of the box.

Windows 8 lacks a DVD decoder so you can't watch movie DVDs but it handles programs that come on DVDs like some games do these days. VLC is a free media player that has it's own DVD decoder built in so it's not really that big a deal.

The big change for Windows 8 is the new start screen, switcher, and charms bar. The start screen is like a full screen start menu. User's pin their favorite programs to the start screen and arrange them in any order. Instead of icons, the start screen has tiles that represent programs.

The start screen runs it's own kind of program called an app. Apps are downloaded from the Windows Store and run full screen by default. Apps don't have the usually controls and don't run in windows so you won't see window borders, title bars, minimize, maximize, or close buttons. What's neat is that apps can also display useful information on their program tiles. For example, a weather app can automatically show you the current weather condition and temperature on it's tile without you having to actually open the app. The mail app can tell you when you have new messages without running it, etc. So you can get a lot of information by simply going from the desktop to the start screen and reading the tiles.

The new interface takes some getting used to but once you have it down it's really not a big a deal as some say it is.

I run Windows 8 on my desktop and have no touch screen so I can assure you, it works fine with a keyboard, mouse, or laptop trackpad.

- Dominic

What should I use to get my Dazzle video transfer cable recognized?

fcojavaa

I have a Dazzle video transfer unit for converting VHS signal to digital. I bought it some five years ago and transferred some videos and forgot it. Now I attach the VHS to my laptop and it cannot recognize anything. I guess I need some drivers. The DVD it came with cannot install in my Windows 8 demo laptop. How to get to get the f-------ng signal from the VHS player? Some freebie you know of?

Answer
you need to download dazzle's recording software...

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Dazzle/Dazzle+Video+Archiving/Dazzle+DVD+Recorder+Plus+Support/Contact/Contact+Support/Contact+Support+for+Dazzle+DVD+Recorder.htm?mode=categories

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What is a good DVD player for Windows 8?

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RocKstar

I have an HP laptop and the DVD player that comes with it sucks so much. Can anyone give me the name of a DVD/media player that actually works well with Windows 8?

Answer
Now i am using dvdfab media player on my new win8 operating system.You can also have a try with this one.

What is the best app for windows 8 that will allow me to watch DVD video?

Eva

Windows media player is available for windows 8, but it does not allow people to watch a DVD video. What application should I download that will allow me to watch DVD videos on windows 8?

Answer
Try VLC Media Player

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A question about dvd playback on my laptop?

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Nitro Neon

I have a laptop with windows 8 and i know that they took the dvd playback function on windows media player 12 off. I am currently using 2 dvd player softwares called, vlc media player and one called UMPlayer, on vlc, the dvd plays back fine, but on umplayer, it plays back choppy. I like umplayer more so how can I fix this?

Answer
Have you tried watching movie dvd's using the windows media player,version 12 is on my Windows 7 and it plays movies fine.

Need to capture images from a video. I cant open the video in anything but Toshiba Video Player?

Christina

I insert the dvd and Toshiba Video Player automatically opens. I can't open my video in anything but this program. On my old laptop which used Vista I had VLC Media Player. I now have Windows 8 and I can't download any program that will help me capture images from a video. I have no idea what I am doing wrong! I have tried opening the video in Movie Maker and Media Player but it never opens it. I am so confused, please help! Old laptop crashed so that isn't an option :(

Answer
I'm running VLC on my windows 8 computer fine, you could try opening VLC and opening the video from there. Do you know what format the video is saved in? If its something weird maybe most programs can't open it.
Here's a download link for VLC if you don't have it yet reinstalled yet
http://vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com/

You could also watch it in the Toshiba player and hit the print screen (often PrtSc) button on the keyboard (on my laptop its right after f12) and then paste that screen shot into paint or word or something else.

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