Can someone please help, I have a dvd disk containing lecture videos, on a Windows pc it works fine, and the disk opens to the dvd menu. However on my macbook pro running Mountain Lion, it opens as a data disk, with video and audio in two seprate files??

Can someone please help, I have a dvd disk containing lecture videos, on a Windows pc it works fine, and the disk opens to the dvd menu. However on my macbook pro running Mountain Lion, it opens as a data disk, with video and audio in two seprate files??

You may need a 3rd party application to view the DVD in a wWindows format such as
http://flip4mac-3.en.softonic.com/mac
https://www.macupdate.com/app/iphone/5758/vlc-media-player

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