Pbds dvd+rw ds-8w1p

[PoutineJunky74]

Hello all,

I have a problem with my dvd player.It won't read original movie dvd's,burned mp3 music cd's and I have no idea about original music cd's as I have none.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with windows XP sp3 and my windows is updated comepletely.In the device manager list this is the DVD rom listed: PBDS DVD+RW DS-8W1P.

I am computer illiterate when it comes to knowing the manufacturer or companies for computer components so I havn't the slightest idea who made this.

My problem:
I load a movie dvd into my drive.A pop up window apears and asks me to choose a program to load the disk.I chose windows media player as this seems to be the only thing listed aside from opening the folder and doing nothing.When I installed Inter Actual Player from a movie dvd it opened up,but when I came to press play to play the dvd it gave me this error message: Error PL4013: Playback failed due to a problem with the video subsystem. You may be using an unsupported display mode or your system may not have a working decoder installed. Please ensure that your DVD decoder is functioning...and when I try using windows media player 10-11 it also gives me an error message : Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer.

How do I get a dvd decoder for my dvd player model?

I forgot to mention that my laptop was purchased second hand and it was loaded with windows vista and I didn't like it so I got a friend to remove it,he had alot of trouble since I didn't have a single driver for it,and install windows xp home on it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :o :sad: I feel so retarded that it may be just a simple error my friend may have forgotten something etc and i'm not computer savvy enough to notice till now

[Arachne]

Try downloading the free VLC and see if that’ll play your DVD movies.

About the music CDs…what are you using to try and play those, and what error are you getting?

BTW, welcome to CDF

[PoutineJunky74]

I have windows media player and I also have winamp.Nothing happens at all when I put a burned music cd in the drive.I used NTI CD & DVD Maker 7 on my other laptop and the cd plays well.

[Kerry56]

Windows XP does not come with a native dvd decoder. Try the program Arachne mentioned. It is a free program that can play your dvds. It doesn’t rely on outside codecs.

[PoutineJunky74]

Thank you.I installed VLC and it worked!I was able to play a dvd in my dvd rom but the picture was really choppy at times.Sound was good.Is there anything else I can do to fix this?Why can’t I use windows media player?

[Kerry56]

Why can’t I use windows media player?

Windows XP does not come with a dvd decoder. That is why you cannot use Windows Media Player. You can, of course, buy a dvd decoder to use in WMP, but you might as well just get a commercial program like WinDVD or PowerDVD instead.