On 11/09/2012 22:16, Janet Tweedy wrote:
Sorry not a gardening thing but I trust gardeners more than Google . I
have a laptop but it has XP on it but windows media player can't play
DVD's on it as it doesn't have one installed. Now I know I can get a
free compatible DVD player from somewhere but who to trust to download it?

Any suggestions please?

Could you ask the question again in English please?

ALDI do cheap reasonable external DVD players (rewriters) or you could
buy one from Maplin, Amazon, Dabs or PCW. They are all much of a
muchness now - a few complete dogs but look for 4 or 5 * reviews.

Maplin has Samsung ext slimline on offer for £35 at the moment.

For playback the cheapest one will do - you might better off with one
that has buffer underrun protection if you intend to burn DVDs.

If you are asking about software the VideoLan VLC is as good as anything
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

That won't help if your internal drive can't read a DVD!

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Regards,
Martin Brown