Cannot play DVD

[shoe]

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?

[photolady]

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

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

[Midknyte]

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

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

[shoe]

Thank You

[photolady]

You're welcome!

[shoe]

Well Neither one worked

[photolady]

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

[shoe]

It is DVD

[Welshjim]

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

[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.

[Midknyte]

Well Neither one worked

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

[shoe]

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.

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

[SpywareDr]

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

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