Can't play DVD on PC - Logical Volume Identifier issue

usignuolo

My OH has a fairly new laptop (HP 6 months old, runs Win 7). He has a DVD he wants to watch, which plays fine on our tv/dvd player. It just won't play on his laptop. When he loads it in the drive, it appears on My Computer as a DVD but with the actual title of Logical Volume Identifier. When he tries to play it, nothing happens, screen just hangs. It seems to think it is a CD.

I have a brand new Dell PC running Windows 7 64 bit and I can't get it to run either, also recognised as DVD and also hangs. No error message. Any suggestions anyone.

Spunkeh

Which media player are you using?

usignuolo

Windows media player

adouglasmhor

Try VLC media player

Spunkeh

Try downloading VLC media player.. Windows Media Player generally needs codecs to play dvds, in my experience anyway..

karatepet

does he have media smart on laptop?

googler

With the DVD loaded in the drive, right-click on the icon/name in windows explorer.

Select Open With... and what options are then available?

chewynut

It sounds like you have WMP 11 on the laptop, which doesn't have the right codec to play DVDs. It's extremely annoying!

I second the recommendation for VLC Player. KM Player is also good and has the added bonus of being able to play any format I've come across (except protected iTunes stuff).

S0litaire

*note*
Legally you *HAVE* to buy a licence to play DVD's (that's why Windows can't play DVD's out of the box!). So you have to buy DVD player software (though Dell usually bundles a DVD player and licence with their systems.)

VLC gets round this by bundling in a "reversed engineered" codec for DVD playback which is legal to have.

Basically VLC will play virtually anything... ^_^

GunJack

S0litaire wrote: »

Basically VLC will play virtually anything... ^_^

...and if VLC won't, Media Player Classic probably will