dvd wont play in xp

[Mike]

I installed a dvd drive in a friend computer. The pc is
about a year old and runs on xp home. I added the dvd as
the slave on the secondary channel (cdr on master). xp
found the device correctly and loaded the drivers. A dvd
will not play. He has win media 9 and a decent graphics
card. The dvd drive will play cds and recognize data
disks. Does win med 9 natively support dvd playback? Do
I need to add something like powerdvd to make it work or
is it something else altogether?

 

[Jerry]

You must add software to play DVDs - PowerDVD should work, as will many
others.

 

[Fitz]

You don't have to buy a dvd player software program, you can add just the
codecs compatible with the Windows Media Player. Intervideo WinDVD is about
69 dollars. The codecs to enable DVD playback in Media Player (also from
Intervideo) is 15 dollars from this link:
http://www.intervideo.com/products/custom/ms/windowsxp/media_pack.jsp

Fitz

 

[Jerry]

Thanks for posting the info - I'll remember to pass it on to others.