On 16/09/2012 14:31, Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , Martin Brown
writes
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!

Xperion should read DVD's but my copy of XP and Windows media player
doesn't include a compatible DVD player, can read DVD's/CD's but not
play them Downloaded one that was recommended only to find it didn't
seem to 'gel' with XP well it wouldn't play anyway !

There is something odd going on. XP should be able to do this and VLC
definitely will run on XP and it will play most types of video file. You
might perhaps have to download a codec for a really obscure format.

Sorry couldn't think of another word for DVD player software, don't need
hardware

I think you have some sort of config error that is preventing DVD
decoders from working on your PC. You should in extremis be able to
nagivate around the disk in EXplorer and double click on the large MPEG
files and let the OS go and find the right reader.

The only other thing I can think of is that you have region locked
content on the disk and a mismatched player region.

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Regards,
Martin Brown