Dvd player will not play movies

Try the DVD in another player, if it works fine, the problem is with your player, not the disc.

Here you go, if you only have the divx player to try and get this to work, uninstall it and forget about it. Download the following program, run the setup fallow the instructions Tell it to to use both windows media player classic and windows media player. Read the questions carefully because if you don't assign a media extension for it to assign codecs for it won't play them. So when it's lists (avi,mpeg,mpeg4, etc.) Pretty much click all the box's, always choose stereo for audio options, last I checked 5.1 was still glitchy. That is about all don't mess with the codec and vendor choices until you become more familiar with codecs. Actually you will probably never need to just answer the questions at start up carefully. If you don't know what to do during the setup just ask question here. You should be fine, just don't get impatient and clicking box's, and everything will be fine. You don't have to open anything again, it does everything for you after it is installed. The End..... Hope this was Helpful.

This is not an issue with the drive. The drive is not what tells your pc to play movies automatically. Anyhow, I don't know what version of windows you are using, but if you click start-help and then type in 'auto play' it will show you how to change the settings so movies will play automatically. Also, if you don't have it already, install VLC media player.....it plays pretty much any video files.


Hope this helps!

Joe

If the cd´s play and the dvd´s don´t the only thing are the motor disc spindle looses velocity and can´t read the dvd

The laser pickup is gone.

please send the dvd drive for service to your nearest acer service centre....

it might be sevral reasons:
1. Check if region code is the same for movies you playing and DVD player
2. If you using video CDs or copyed DVDs, player might be preventing to playback those kind of discs, due to copyright laws or due to different speed settings for DVD player and discks you using (for intsrance you player can playback DVD/CD+R, and you using DVD/CD-R, or mximum allowed playback speed is 16 you using disk recorded at 24, but this is in case you using burned/copied CD/DVDs)
3. Check it lens is durty. For that use CD/DVD lens cleaning disk
($6 in Walmart, if you are in US)
4. Check if movies you are have the same coloring system, i.e NTSC for US
5. Check CD/DVD for scratches, some DVD players can not playback scratched disks
Please kindly let me know if my information was helpfull for you or you need more info
Good Luck

I can send you a manual if needed. [email protected]

did you try a dvd movie do they play if so buy a different brand of blank dvd this happened to me i use

dvdr= sony ok
retail plus ok wal-mart brand
imation ok
at&t nogood on the rca machine
dvdrw= dataware ok
imation ok
cdr =tdk ok

these are all the brands a know are working on rca machines!
but keep in mind you can buy the most expensive blanks and they may or may not work on different machines

When you say it won?t read are you trying to play commercial DVD movies or read DVD data disks? If you're trying to play movies then you need a couple of things the first being some type of player program. Real player works as does Windows media player but usually DVD drives come with a striped down version of PowerDVD or WinDVD. If you in fact have a player installed and when a DVD is inserted in your drive it doesn't play it may not be configured to automatically play DVDs. Try opening your player program and trying to manually play your DVD. Let us know if you have any success or if you need more assisted. If you do let us know what player program and operating system you have and any error messages that may appear.