Question about windows media payer ?

Question

i have windows media player 11

when i tried to play dvd on wmp

this thing showed :

Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card.

what does that mean

dont say that i need to download vlc or media player classic

i just wnna know what does it means

Answer 1

You would require proper Codecs to play DVDs in  laptop using any media player (just not windows media player).

A CODEC is a combination of COder-DECoder. When media is written to DVD or CD, using some special algorithms, it will be encoded in to a specific compressed format. This encoding also decides the quality of the media. At the time you play the disc, this encoded media cannot be played as it is. It should be decoded on your computer before it can be played. There the Codecs come in to picture. DivX is one of the famous codec technologies that could compress a DVD Movie to a single CD with out loosing quality very much.

Some players automatically download the codecs from websites to play the media, and some dont. In my case, windows media player 11 has never been able to download a codec to play DVDs successfully. This could be by design.

go to www.free-codecs.net which is a codec heaven for anyone and download the codec and play the DVD in WMP.