Windows media player won't play DVDs - Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Window media player is wrong, get new one otherwise get into any of the media player change yours

Fix: Windows Media Player won't Play DVD
Preparation: Uninstall Recently Installed Suspicious Tools.
Solution 1: Repair the Media Encoder.
Solution 2: Update Your Sound and Video Drivers.
Solution 3: Install a Proper Codec Pack.
Solution 4: Reinstalling Windows Media Player.


This may help you,
Rachel Gomez

Download and use vlc

This is because Windows has dropped its support to provide Windows Media Player's built-in DVD codec for Windows 10 and above. To a large extent, Microsoft sees that the market is decreasing needs for a DVD drive, not to mention DVD playback service. They take it for granted that not many users may spend extra money for DVD playback since users could easily watch movies from the internet. In addition, Microsoft does not feel like paying a licensing fee to include DVD codec in the operating system. So users may not be able to play DVD via Windows Media Player.

Solution:
Install DVD codec pack. Download the codec pack from the given link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/plugins.aspx
Step 2: 2: Find a folder on your computer to save the package. And then install it for WMP following the instructions.
Step 3: After installation, insert the DVD and use Windows Media Player to play your DVD disc

Or you can try to download another DVD player program on your PC. You can try Leawo Blu-ray Player, which is a free 4K and region-free player.

Upgrade your windows media player to 10 or 11 . after upgrading go to options menu in windows media player. In that u can see one of the tab named " File Types " ..click that tab and select all the file formats..now your windows media player will play DVD's

Hello,
this problem is due to the decoder is missing in media player. you can download and install decoder from here

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/plugins.aspx#DVDDecoder

just install it and play the DVD in WMP.

Question : Is your laptop is DELL???

Download VLC media player http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ much better than windows media player...and it plays everything