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I'm trying to play DVDs with MPlayer, and I cannot get the darn things to play. Even when I tell the computer to open the DVD using MPlayer, the program opens but the DVD doesn't play.
Anyone have an idea how this works?
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I don't know what the problem is with Mplayer. I've had good luck with VLC, a free player from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ But I rarely watch DVDs on my computer, mostly video files.
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It might not be the drive. I believe that on windows, both MPlayer and VLC use the system DVD decryption capabilities. That could be what is screwed up.
To verify it is the drive, get someone with a desktop with an extra drive bay to try out the drive.
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