can't play dvd on an LG slim portable dvd writer on my asus

Anonymous
2013-09-05T22:50:18+00:00

I have an LG slim portable dvd writer and player...DVD's won't play on my asus and I can't use windows media as my default program.

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Anonymous
2013-09-05T23:37:07+00:00

Hi,

I'm thinking you're talking about an actual DVD movie, not a mpg or wmv video files on the disk....

If that is the case, WMP 12 in Win 8 will not play DVD movie disks or files due to licensing reasons.

You're options would be to activate Media Center, or use a 3rd party player....

VLC and Media Player Classic are two popular free programs...

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-04-16T19:49:35+00:00

    I installed media player classic but it isn't working.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-01-01T05:02:52+00:00

    There is more to it, I have been having trouble with my LG GP60NS50 also. I have been using VLC media player all along.  I am using a HP Pavillion laptop windows 8. I am starting to think it has something to do with my last windows update.  The dvd drive wasn't showing up and I called LG and they helped me reinstall it but it is still being a problem playing dvd's so I will call again tomorrow and see.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-11-02T22:27:35+00:00

    I was so frustrated with this problem. Best Buy finally figured out I needed the VLC program to use the portable LG  DVD player with my Asus Windows 8.1 Tablet. All seems to be working, but the VLC program doesn't play the entire Nature and Music DVD's I've been using. It stops after the third or 4th "song".  Then it crashes!

    It just amazes me that my tablet won't work with the portable drive and Windows Media player! I'm sticking to my laptop-- less frustration! 

    --cjbricks

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-10-31T14:02:56+00:00

    Hi,

    I know nothing about Zeal... It may have a problem of some kind, or possibly a setting somewhere causing problems...

    After trying numerous players, I've pretty much determined VLC is as good as you're going to get....

    It may not be the actual BEST, but I would think that if it's not, it's a very close 2nd.

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