I believe it depends on which version of Vista you are using. I have two
machines with Vista Business. I tried playing dvd on one of them - no luck.
Somewhere in one of these forums I though I remembered seeing that Vista
Business needed a plugin for WMP11 in order to play DVD on business.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...r/plugins.aspx
lists two plugins. I purchased the "CyberLink PowerDVD SE" plugin. (~15.00).
Bingo - I could now view DVDs.
Even though both plugins listed cost about the same, I avoided the Roxio
plugin because of some reliability issues I have had with some of their
products (Easy Media Creator 8.0 and 9.0) and what appears to me to be a
severe lack of focus on customer satisfaction.
"oldfogie" wrote:
> I have had Vista about 3 months, and have only had a couple of minor problems which I got solved.
> But when I put a DVD into the DVD RW drive, the player screen comes up, then says "Windows Media Player has stopped working"
> It plays CDs, and video files ok.
> A computer guy I know on a forum (who is very good) says WMP in Vista should play DVDs without any extra codecs or other program.
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