Cannot play DVD

I fired up a old XP machine yesterday and when I went to play a DVD I got this message
" Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer .
How do I fix this?

Download and install the K-lite codec package from the link below:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...Codec_Pack.htm

XP didn't include the dvd codecs. Install the codecs or just install VLC.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Thank You

You're welcome!

Well Neither one worked

You said "old computer" does the computer in fact have DVD drive, or is it just a CDRW drive?

It is DVD

shoe--Try
1) Another DVD

2) Clean the laser pickup on the DVD player.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2036275_clean-lens-dvd.html

http://www.ehow.com/video_2201364_cl...d-players.html

3) Lots of ideas
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...d-77c46374c9e4

Need a bit more info please:

1. Click Start > Run, type in:
   msinfo32
   and press [Enter].
   
   
2. In the System Information window that pops up, in the left pane, click the [+] to the left of Components, then underneath that, click CD-ROM.
   
   
3. Now over in the right pane, in the Item column, you should see "Name". And to the right of that, in the Value column is the name of the drive. Please post that exact name.
   
   
4. If you have more than one CD-ROM drive, you'll see another "Name" a bit futher down in the same Item column. Please post the exact name of that drive as well.

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Originally Posted by shoe

Well Neither one worked

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What happened when played the DVD with VLC? Just saying it didn't work doesn't tell us much.

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Originally Posted by SpywareDr

Need a bit more info please:

1. Click Start > Run, type in:
   msinfo32
   and press [Enter].
   
   
2. In the System Information window that pops up, in the left pane, click the [+] to the left of Components, then underneath that, click CD-ROM.
   
   
3. Now over in the right pane, in the Item column, you should see "Name". And to the right of that, in the Value column is the name of the drive. Please post that exact name.
   
   
4. If you have more than one CD-ROM drive, you'll see another "Name" a bit futher down in the same Item column. Please post the exact name of that drive as well.

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PNP Device ID Value IDE\CDROMSAMSUNG_CDRW/DVD_SN-324F

http://en.community.dell.com/support.../17619459.aspx

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