Help with Windows Media Player?

Question

My Windows Media Play won't play my DVDs, it's saying "Windows Media Player cannot play DVD video. You might need to adjust your Windows display settings. Open display settings in Control Panel, and then try lowering your screen resolution and color quality settings"

But, I ALREADY TRIED DOING THAT, so that's not the problem.. any other tips?

Answer 1

Windows Media Player actually needs for the user to have a 'third party' DVD player program installed so that it can access the DVD decoder codecs. Something like "Power DVD" or "DVD Power Director", etc. The Media Player is not able to play the DVD files without it. Usually a DVD playing program disk is included with your DVD burner/player. For some reason, (probably licensing agreements), Microsoft doesn't include the DVD codecs with the WMP installation.

You can go to Microsoft's site for more answers. They even include links to the dvd decoder/codecs: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/plugins.aspx#DVDDecoder

The 'Player' help page is: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/playing_CDs_DVDs.mspx

Hope this helps.

~Mermy http://www.mermeliz.com

Answer 2

aparantly you have some wierd type of dvd compatable mpeg - 2 file (i think)
try this simple player ITS CALLED THE "VLC MEDIA PLAYER"

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

it should NOT hurt your system to have another player on it i have several
another good one to have is jet audio basic

http://www.download.com/JetAudio-Basic/3000-2167_4-10617379.html?tag=lst-0-1

i love jet audio basic it has a cd burner you can print lists// plays 59 types of audio and video files (just the free version is all you need
and best of all it does absolutly nothing in the way of hounding you to purchase it( i just love it)

Answer 3

you need this program

http://www.download.com/CyberLink-PowerDVD/3000-2139_4-10533000.html

click now and install - you're all set 4 DvDs