I have a new DVD drive, and it won't play DVD movies. I went and I downloaded DivX, hoping that it would fix my problem, but to no avail. I even re-downloaded it but that didn't work either. Will someone help me?
2007-02-07 09:58:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Download VLC or Media Player Classic, PowerDVD among others. They play dvds. If you have a codec for Windows Media Player 10 or 11, assuming you have XP, you can also play DVDs there.
2007-02-07 10:10:37 · answer #1 · answered by Mashu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DivX is nothing at all to do with DVD playback so it's no surprise that didn't work.
Anyway, as you don't bother to say *exactly* what happens when you try and play a DVD I'm shooting blind here but if I had to guess, which I do, I'd reckon that you don't have any DVD playback software installed. Windows won't play DVDs as standard, so simply having a DVD drive doesn't help in that respect, you need to actually install a software DVD player before you can watch them. The only free one I know of is VLC, though it's a bit fiddly to get it working. Download page for VLC here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
2007-02-07 10:07:19 · answer #2 · answered by Bamba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because your computer is cheap
2007-02-07 10:05:35 · answer #3 · answered by Ale C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋