Burnt a DVD with a DVD Player (and it plays fine with it) won't play on windows 8 laptop?

kbcountry37

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I have a DVD player that can burn recordings to DVD, however my laptop will not read that there is anything on the disc (even though I've watched it with the DVD player). SO PLEASE IS THERE A WAY TO FIX THIS? I NEED THE VIDEO I RECORDED.
 

kbcountry37

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I have a DVD player that not only plays DVDs, it can record and then burn them. I know what I'm talking about because my dad who installed it explained it to me and he has 30+ years experience in that field. Don't talk down to me.

My DVD player on my laptop works perfectly fine, second off....it just won't read this one and I NEED what is on it.

Also, I NEVER use Windows Media Player. My Acer came with a player that is 10x better.
 

rgd1101

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which software did you use to burn the dvd?
make and model of the laptop?
 

kbcountry37

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That seems like an option although I only used it today so figuring that out....may be a hard one


 

kbcountry37

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ARE YOU READING WHAT I TYPED. READ THEN TYPE.

 

boju

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depends how new and what codec the dvd recorder uses, probably divx maybe and also depends how old your Acer media player is as well. Look to see if there's an update for your player to include these codecs if it is a media player issue as rgd1101 has suggested. Test with Windows media player anyway to see if theres a difference since WMP is maintained.