This page describes how to use VLC to play back DVD in Windows 8.
If they won't help or they say that it was OEM hardware and did not come with software, then consider using VLC to play your videos as it's free quality open source software. One option is to contact the company (Dell?) that supplied the external DVD player and ask them why you didn't get the comercial DVD playback and DVD burning software that you expected would come with your hardware, they may provide it to you if it should have come within your package, or they will tell you where you can download it from.
#External dvd player for laptop usb install
But if you double click and no software is associated with that file extension, then there is no playback software associated with such files and you can't watch your DVD's.īut as mentioned, Windows does not includes DVD capable playback software by default, so you will need to install DVD playback software. If you have a player associated with these types of files, usually autoplay will kick in and playback starts automatically on inserting the DVD into your drive. IFO files can handle CSS encoded DVD, the playback will start and you will see video and hear audio. VOB files will have an association with some playback software and double clicking the VIDEO_TS.VOB file will launch the player. IFO files contain the DVD commands to play the appropriate video chain (stream). VOB files contain the CSS encoded video while the. Now, go into VIDEO_TS directory where you should see a bunch of files, a bunch of. This indicates that Windows can see the DVD drive hardware correctly and can also see the files within the DVD itself. You should now see two directories AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. Go to Explorer and then right click the DVD drive selecting open. So, for the moment the simplest thing is to connect the drive to the laptop and then insert a DVD into the drive. UNLESS the hardware was a OEM version, which normally does not come in a box like retail version, then you normally get nothing. Usually when you buy a DVD player/burner you get some software with it, either WinDVD or PowerDVD for video playback and some other software if the device can also burn disks. Windows by default can not decode DVD video, so you will need some playback software.
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