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How to play DVD on compute?
Got a computer with no disk drive. Plugged in an external burner. Can I watch a DVD via this Plugged it in but nothing happening. Opened file explorer and it is recognising burner. Got Windows Media Player installed, but how do you 'connect' the two so it will play the DVD. Tried everything and wondered if anyone could help?
3 Answers
- Spock (rhp)Lv 73 weeks ago
kee-rect, Mick -- Microsoft crippled Windows Media Player on purpose. you'll find several free media players at cnet.com/downloads that should do the trick
- micksmixxxLv 73 weeks ago
You CAN watch DVDs using your external DVD Drive, my friend, but I presume that you're running Windows 10 on your computer. Unfortunately Microsoft, in their wisdom (sic) saw fit to remove the DVD playing capabilities of the Operating System unless you paid for an extra DVD playing software.
The following webpage offers a list of what they consider to be the best FREE DVD playing softwares, and provides links where to download them from.
Top of the list is VideoLAN VLC Media Player, as suggested by Benny Fitz, for which he gets a thumbs up from me. VLC Media Player is exceptional in that it comes with its own inbuilt codecs (codecs are used in the compression and decompression of various video file formats, which is why it can play almost all video files that you can 'throw' at it).
