Playing DVD's using Windows Media Player

I've been trying to play dvd's that I've made or bought in both my Dell Inspiron labtop and my Dell 8250 pc and they won't play right. It doesn't matter if it's a music or movie. I downloaded a nvidia video decoder for my pc.......no go! The only thing that seems to work better than anything that I've tried is to download the VLC media player. The play there isn't bad, but I was told by the geek squad that I may need some more memory? All my drivers on both computers are up to date so what gives. If I try to play any dvd in media player without the vlc the audio/video is jumpy and distorted. I've been therefore using the vlc...........it was FREE! I've read in a thread that "changing the region" will then auto play when dvd's are inserted. Thanks for all your help!!!!

It sounds like a codec issue with media player. Media player doesn't come with it's own DVD codec, which is needed to play DVD's. You need third party DVD software or codec to play DVD's, like WinDVD, PowerDVD,VLC (free), etc. When DVD codec is installed, Media player will use this to decode the DVD files.
3rd party software usually has a built in utility that loads at start-up and can be configured to auto play DVD's, or........you can use windows auto play feature to automatically plays DVD's when inserted.
Open "My Computer".> Right click you DVD drive> select "properties"> under "Auto Play" tab, select DVD movies, then check "select an action to perform", Highlight the program you want to play you DVD movies, then click ok.
Message Edited by inutel on 01-23-2009 08:57 PM

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