What am I doing wrong DVD will not play.

[ericmark]

Wife got me a box set of Billy Connolly to watch while recovering from Colid 19, I thought just put in the laptop DVD player and they would work, but no I get intro music, and that's all.

Tried Media Player Classic, Films & TV, Windows Media Player, but nothing except intro.

At the moment I am using a media converter to make it into MP4 format, then I hope I can play it?

 

[mattylad]

Get vlc media player.

VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN

www.videolan.org

If that cannot play it then you have hardware issues

 

[RepairingDave]

VLC media player plays most things, but I tried to use it to play a DVD with an interactive menu and it did allow the buttons to be clicked.

Downloaded 'Nero DVD player' and it worked fine.

 

[ericmark]

Thank you @mattylad VLC worked a treat, I had expected the software to have been included with windows 10, clearly not.

 

[Fred Blogs]

The reason the DVDs wouldn't play is because you did not have the right codecs installed on your computer. That's because Windows 10/11 and pretty much everything from Microsoft or Apple is a pile of junk. I get my codecs from here and I use the Media Player Classic provided.

Download K-Lite Codec Pack

Download links for the K-Lite Codec Pack. A free software bundle for high quality audio and video playback.

codecguide.com

 

[ericmark]

Thanks now I can listen with Media Player Classic, but no video, however VLC works fine so not problem any more.

 

[opps]

The reason the DVDs wouldn't play is because you did not have the right codecs installed on your computer. That's because Windows 10/11 and pretty much everything from Microsoft or Apple is a pile of junk. I get my codecs from here and I use the Media Player Classic provided.

Download K-Lite Codec Pack

Download links for the K-Lite Codec Pack. A free software bundle for high quality audio and video playback.

codecguide.com

The bill for Microsoft and its PC OEM partners could be as much as $800 million per year if Windows included the required codecs.

Personally, I use the free K-Lite Codec pack.

Download K-Lite Codec Pack Full

K-Lite Codec Pack is a free software bundle for playing all your audio and video files. It is very flexible, easy to use, and provides high quality playback.

codecguide.com