dvds should be able to play by default as long as you have a DVD player in your computer. once inserted, it should auto play, if not go into your library and there should be a disk icon on the left which you can double click to play. no decoder should be necessary
In order to play DVDs, you must have a DVD decoder installed. On a retail computer, this will usually be bundled. If not, you will have to purchase a DVD decoder, such as PowerDVD or WindDVD.
In order to play video DVDs on a laptop, your computer must be faster than 400MHz and have at least an MPEG-2 decoder. This can be integrated into your computer as hardware or software that comes with your DVD player application.
dvds are used for storing various kinds of information and media. dvds are often used for storing movies which can be played on a DVD player.
You have to rip the DVD's first before you can play them.
To play DVDs using the Player in XP, you must have a DVD-ROM drive and a software or hardware DVD decoder installed on your computer. By default, Windows does not include a DVD decoder.
If by DVD decoder you mean something to remove copy protection, the best out there is AnyDVD. If you mean the ability to play DVDs download K-Lite Mega Codec Pack.
You need to install a codec pack for DVDs to play in Windows Media Player. You can generally find a codec pack from either Roxio or Cyberlink for under $20.
Aside from Windows Media Player, you can also try Mplayer which supports a wide variety of media formats.
only if ur DVD player is codefree & supports PAL dvds. usually a DVD player sold in the us only accepts rc1 dvds.Australian dvds are RC4. and PAL. US dvds are NTSC. so if the us DVD player is a cool one it should play the DVD :) any PC can play it with the right software, i.e. the VLC media player (www.videolan.org). greetz
PS2 games are on DVDs
VLC Media is an open source player for video and audio files, DVDs, and VCDs. It works on most common operating systems such as Mac, Linux and Windows.
i know you can use windows media player to burn music to blank cds so i think it can also burn video files to dvds. if it cant then you can watch the video files on windows media player.