Dvd Drive Troubleshooting

[Anne_Jacobs18]

Hi,
I want to ask some help to fix my DVD drive. I bought a new DVD and since I am excited to watch it, as soon as I arrived home, I immediately put it in my laptop's DVD drive. Then, I was so shocked for its not working anymore. I try ejecting the Dvd and then insert it back but it gets the same error. So I thought that maybe, I need to restart my laptop, and so I did. Then again, I inserted my DVD again but till the error that's says No DVD Decoder keeps popping in. I am hoping for your technical advice to fix this. Thank you!

[Old_Geezer]

Daft question I know but; it is a DVD drive not a CD drive isn't it ?

[VHG]

Wndows 7 comes with a DVD decoder built in, but XP and Vista dont, see here

http://windows.micros...media-player/plug-ins

I believe there are free DVD decoders you can download, but I have never done it.

I am sure someone will suggest one soon.

[ChuckFickens]

VLC media player will play DVDs in XP.

http://download.cnet....13632_4-10267151.html

[bazwillrun]

k-lite codec pack

[Art_moreno24]

Are you using Media Player? Or VLC? If the video or audio in your DVD doesn't work at all, it certainly means that you need to update your player with its latest decoder. You need to install them every time they give you an update for installation. You can search on the web to find some free app to download so you can always detect if your player needs an update.

For more info you can check this site : http://techyv.com/que...layer-no-dvd-decoder.

Have a great troubleshooting day!

[Anne_Jacobs18]

Yes Old_Geezer, its DVD drive..
Thanks for helping me everyone! :)