Windows Media Player can't play DVD

-TangleFoot-

Use of the VLC media player would sidestep the issue rather neatly, but doesn't solve the problem itself. Furthermore, if this is a case of conflicting codecs adding more (as K-Lite does) is likely to make things worse.

boliston

I'm pretty sure that "DeCSS" decoding is sometimes required to be installed for DVD playback as not all player software has this built in, especially "non commercial" software.

bat999

@ boliston
VLC comes with 'libdvdcss' included.
This has the same effect as 'DeCSS'.
:cool:

roddydogs

Taffybiker wrote: »

It will if you set VLC as the default player.

How do you do this? Ta

Taffybiker

I don't know which OS you are using but for XP do the following:
Right click on the file > Open With > Choose Program > VLC. Tick the box to "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" > OK.
Any file with the same extension will then open directly with VLC.

roddydogs

Taffybiker wrote: »

I don't know which OS you are using but for XP do the following:
Right click on the file > Open With > Choose Program > VLC. Tick the box to "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" > OK.
Any file with the same extension will then open directly with VLC.

Thanks, it is XP , but ther is no "open with" option, only "Open" which then take you to Windows Media Player, which dosent work, it just say "Windows dosent have a progr
ame associated with it"

JasX

in XP open "my computer" , click "tools" then "folder option" then look under the "file types" tab

if you scroll down to the appropriate file type (eg .mov, .avi .mp4 ) etc you can hit the "change" default button for individual file types and point it towards vlc media player instead of windows media player