Can I use this device connected to my Acer Aspire R14 (which does not have a dvd slot), to play dvds?

Try installing a new software program to play your DVDs. Also look for updated dvd player drivers from Acer site.

At this point, I am thinking "hardware" -- the laser that shines onto the surface of the disks has stopped working. Replace the CD/DVD drive.

Hi, firstly your graphics need to be good enough to play DVDs, also you could install secondary software such as Power DVD to play your DVDs

Hi,
use the driver cd which came along with your laptop and reinstall the audio driver from it. After that reinstall the real player as well if needed.

After that everything should work fine.
I hope this is helpful to you.
Thanks

Either
* your "optical" device can only read CDs, not DVDs;
* it should read DVDs, but something is "dead", and the device is not performing as it should
* you need to install software to "play" a DVD-movie.

Define "will not accept" -- can you hear the drive spin the disc?
Does any program "auto-start" on your computer, when a DVD disk is inserted?

I'm guessing you may have locked the DVD region. If you right-click on the device in Device Manager and click the Region tab, does it say 0 changes available? Acer won't fix this, and claim you have to replace the drive. Can't find a firmware flash for this drive online, will post back here if successful!

speed control in the unit. The DVD can't sync with the audio. It is usually a hardware problem. Need to replace the DVD drive.

You need to play DVDs through Acer Arcade. To do this you can turn off autoplay (use help function), or assign Acer Arcade to automatically play DVDs. If you still want to use Windows Media Player to play your DVDs you must uninstall Acer Arcade.

if you want to play any of the thousands of DVDs imported from any of the other FOUR REGIONS? You need to make your DVD player (or your Windows PC or Mac) REGION FREE, try download region-free software to unlock your DVD player, and make it can play ntsc hindi songs.

Good luck!

You need a program like WinDVD to play DVD movies. You can download a trial version here.


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