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New dell d620 laptop won't play dvds on windows media player

Popup says cannot play dvd because a compatible dvd decoder is not installed. tryed installing vlc media player, didnot work

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This is mainly because Windows has dropped its support to provide Windows Media Player's built-in DVD codec for Windows 10 and above. To a large extent, Microsoft sees that the market is decreasing needs for a DVD drive, not to mention DVD playback service. They take it for granted that not many users may spend extra money for DVD playback since users could easily watch movies from the internet. In addition, Microsoft does not feel like paying a licensing fee to include DVD codec in the operating system.

You can check the guide for help in the source article.

Source article: (Solved) Windows Media Player Won't Play DVD

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Since you can't play DVD on both Windows Media Player and VLC, maybe you would like to check on these articles:
VLC not playing DVD? Solved!
How to Play DVD on Windows Media Player

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Hello
You need to install a codec pack which you can get here for free:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Encoders-Converter-DIVX-Related/ACE-Mega-CoDecS-Pack.shtml

Hope this helps.

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Anonymous

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SOURCE: windows media player wont play dvds

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/KLite-Codec-Pack-Download-16475.html

download this codec and install it first..

Anonymous

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download VLC player it is best small software it can be run any type of video audio format
download from http://vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com/

Anonymous

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Posted on Feb 01, 2011

SOURCE: Did download a VLC but Win Media Player says"

Did you try playing the dvd using VLC instead of windows media player?

VLC is a separate player for media files. It will not enable Win media player to play DVDs but WILL play DVDs very nicely on it's own.

If you still want to get win media player to work you might try installing this free codec pack : http://download.cnet.com/Media-Player-Codec-Pack/3000-13632_4-10749065.html

Download.
Install.
Restart computer.

Hopefully you should be good to go.

Good luck ;)

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Welcome to FixYa! How are you doing?

Are you trying to play DVD using Windows Media Player?

Download and install VLC Media Player, it is a Free Multimedia Player Software capable of reading most video and audio formats.

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Mike @ compurepair.

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