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
    2016-01-24T04:32:56+00:00

    hi I just saw this but what do I do if my DVD doesn't show up in This PC?

    It will show that there is a DVD player in the USB but it doesn't show that there is a movie in there and when I click on it to open it says there is no disc in the player.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-08T20:37:56+00:00

    VCL sorted it perfectly.  Thanks for the advice. thought my new exernal DVD R/RW disc was a dud.  Relief.  Thank for the spot on advice.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-10-14T02:29:26+00:00

    I too experienced the problem with the LG dvd writer not playing on my asus zenbook. Tried VLC and it didn't work. I purchased Media Center for DVD $9.99 from the MS store. It did not work!!!!

    Installed Media Player Classic and it did work. After install, went into file, open DVD/BD and it works perfectly.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-10T23:46:59+00:00

    In my case it didn't matter because it wasn't a computer issue. It was the dvd writer died. I went through the steps of uninstalling VLC and reinstalling and attempting to force open but when I called LG they walked me through the steps again and checked my warranty which was still in effect and I got a new one- no more problems. If you have tried the other steps given in this thread, call LG- they will let you know what is wrong. I was lucky, my 1yr warranty was almost up

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