Mac won't play dvd that plays fine on my dvd player. 2004 commercial copy of Tour of Duty.

I looked at the dvd files and clicked the auto run exe. I got a message that my mac can't run Microsoft files.

Baer369 wrote:
I looked at the dvd files and clicked the auto run exe. I got a message that my mac can't run Microsoft files.
A commercial DVD does not contain such a file. Where did you get this DVD?

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