DVD player stopped playing movies, gives message

I'm a first time user and hope I'm doing this correctly.  I had to restart my computer in "safe mode" once and since then (maybe coincidentally) the DVD player gives this message "Modules needed for this application are missing.  If restarting the application does not fix the problem please reinstall the application.  Can anyone tell me what it means, why it's showing up now (and won't play DVDs) and how to fix it?  I'm not a skilled computer person. 

Try downloading and installing the VLC Media Player.  It's free and can play DVD's along with just about any other media file.  It is fully self contained so even if there was a problem with your other DVD player software VLC would still work.  If that doesn't play DVD movies either then you are 99.9% certain it's a hardware failure, more than likely the drive itself as Jerry said. 
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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