On 09/18/2012 03:02 PM, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:47:09 +0200, Emery Davis
wrote:

On 09/18/2012 11:56 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
On 18/09/2012 10:30, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:24:07 +0100, Janet Tweedy wrote:

It's only a disc from the Andrew Robson Bridge Club - has card play and
lessons so should be bog standard.

So a physical disc not a file you have downloaded.

Does the drawer of the player have any mention of DVD embossed onto it?

If "No" you don't have the required hardware to play a DVD. Stop.

If "Yes" try VLC, as previously linked, to play the disc.

If VLC fails is the disc a commercially produced stammped DVD one or a
short run home produced "burnt" DVD? A home produced DVD might be a bad
burn. Try it in a normal DVD player and TV.

Worth pointing out that external DVD rewriter drives can be had these
days for about £30-40 from Aldi for instance. Amazon is even cheaper:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-SE-2...7962027&sr=8-2


Just about anything will do to read a DVD - burning them requires a more
sophisticated drive with buffer overrun protection if as seems likely
your PC is slow, elderly and memory constrained.


My wife's Mac mini has one of these attached. It works fine, but is
rather noisy.

Some wives are like that.


Ba-dum dum! Nice one, a real xanthippe.