How do you play movie dvds that you bought

[Secret1200]

I have the new acer v5 laptop and I was wondering how do you play dvds that you bought. I live in the usa.

 

[ldewitt]

just pop it in and it should start playing automatically.

 

[COLGeek]

Typically, applications like PowerDVD or WinDVD are used to view commercial DVDs. Apps live VideoLAN (vlc) are used for non-copyrighted DVDs.

www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

WinDVD: http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4090071

PowerDVD: http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdvd-ultra/features_en_US.html?&r=1

 

[Prostar Computer]

COLGeek is correct. Copyright material needs software designed for playback of said licensed DVDs. PowerDVD works well. I haven't used WinDVD.

 

[ldewitt]

Weird. Mine just start playing when i pop them in they play via windows media player. This is legally purchased copyrighted dvd's.

 

[jeff-j]

I just use windows media player as well. If for some odd reason you are missing the codec pack download k-lite codec pack and it will let you play pretty much anything in windows media player

 

[COLGeek]

Media Player will indeed play many DVDs, but not all. I should have mentioned that earlier as well.

 

[Prostar Computer]

Yes, Windows Media Player is capable of DVD playback with copyrighted material. It's Blu-Ray playback that it does not support (due to patent(s)) natively, which requires purchasing software + codecs.

 

[jaguarskx]

I generally use Media Player Classic - Home Cinema since it is very streamlined and free. I never had a problem playing back DVDs with it. But I have read that a few people did. However, they were able to resolve it by ensuring the DVD disc region and DVD drive region were both the same and by trying different Enhanced Video Render (EVR) selections in the View \ Options... \ Output settings.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpc-hc/

 

[Nepheler]

I copied most of my DVDs to Video_TS folders using DVDAid, then play with VLC on both PC and Mac.