Windows 10: Windows 10 DVD Player

I play DVDs in VLC all the time, not only will it play DVDs well, you can just DROP the DVD ISO image into the player and it opens right up. I use VLC Remote to access the Menus and Controls.

Just type "VLC" into your browser search, and the site comes right up.

 

In place Upgrade from Windows 8.1 with Media Center gets you Windows DVD Player immediately.
Any DVD's your hardware is capable of, but audio is missing from some DVD's.

 

Agreed. MPC-HC is great for video files, and I have it set as my default for just about anything. But there are some DVDs that freeze the program for who knows what reason, and in Windows 7, WMP was my savior when that happened.

 

I upgraded from Windows 7 Ultimate and never got the Windows DVD Player, even days latter it never showed up. I ran Windows update several times on that PC. I did a couple of upgrades from 8.1 Pro + Media Center and the App showed up after running Windows update. On a clean install on those same PC's its MIA. You don't get it back on a clean install on the same PC it qualified for doing the upgrade. Even with the Windows DVD Player installed, if I go to the Store and look it up, it wants the 14.99 to buy it. Even though I already have it? What they should have done is added it to your "My Library" section of the store. Then it would be yours free and clear.

 

As far as I can see Windows DVD player will only open disks from a drive. It came free with my Windows 7 home premium upgrade, I have no use at all for it, VLC can be set to deinterlace everything as default setting or automatic.

 

Yeah but I don't want it to deinterlace everything... it'll lower the quality if you try to deinterlace a non-interlaced video. I only want it to deinterlaced videos that need it!

There's no "detect if it's required" option, which is what bothers me. MPC does it automatically.

Also, Windows 10 has built-in ISO mounting. If you rip your DVDs as ISO files, you should be able to double click them and it'll work...

 

*Ditto

 

Somebody said if you mount an ISO, you can then play it with that App. Haven't tried it myself?

 

Like I said VLC can be set to automatic for deinterlacing or if you prefer you just right click go to video deinterlace and turn it on manually. I'm not trying to get you to use VLC but just correcting your assumption of it's workings and settings. If you would like to pay for something that you can get for free in VLC thats cool.
Deinterlacing - VideoLAN Wiki

 

Naw. You gotta burn it to a DVD.

 

VLC Player

Media Player Classic Home Cinema

KB3081704 Player

 

You may want to remove your 3rd entry, my friend, it seems dangerously close to piracy, if not outright! *Wink

 

Error while updating windows 10 : techsupport


I found this and it seemed to work for me to install the dvd player update (KB3081704) however my windows 10 update under settings is still showing the update failed :

How to install the Windows DVD Player for Windows 10 Anonymous Sun Aug 2 16:45:06 2015 No.49417268 [View] File: 15 KB, 1202x933, windowsdvdplayer-100599020-orig.png [Show reposts] Image reverse search: [iqdb] [google] 49417268 1. Download from Windows Update: http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/...cf27f54f41.cab

• Make 2 directories, c:\temp and c:\temp2
  
• Extract the windows10.0-kb3081704-x64.msi file from downloaded cabinet file into c:\temp
  
• Open command prompt as admin and type (or copy/paste this): msiexec /a c:\temp\windows10.0-kb3081704-x64.msi /qb TARGETDIR=c:\temp2
  
• Open PowerShell as admin and type (or copy/paste this, all one line): Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -PackagePath c:\temp2\InstallDVDAppxPackage\cd0c0ffe0ee94518833e70b1e931fcff.appxbundle -LicensePath c:\temp2\InstallDVDAppxPackage\cd0c0ffe0ee94518833e70b1e931fcff_License1.xml

 

I wanted to add however that your nuts to use anything other then VLC. All the reasons have already been stated except for one. You most definately CAN mount a DVD Image (ISO) and play it inside VLC. Your choice however but atleast there is a fix for you if you stick to the Microsoft WMP.

 

Hi there

VLC also de-crypts everything and de-regionalises the whole kybosh --there is 100% NO POINT in EVER paying anything at all for a Windows DVD player.

What sometimes though is worth while is that if you want to RIP the DVD to store on HDD and convert into MKV / MP4 files for playing with a media server to your remote smart TV's / phones etc (DNLA devices) using servers such as Mezzmo, Serviio, PLEX etc. is to use a program like AnyDvd to remove encryption / DvdCSS stuff and region encryption ( R1, R2 etc -- total B/S these days IMO to have regionalized encoding) -- to create an ISO and then use that ISO to rip to MKV etc.

Things like Handbrake (Free) will easily give you good accurate rips to MKV / MP4 etc (with / without subtitles - your choice) from the de-crypted DVD ISO file.

HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder

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Windows 8/8.1 / 10 mount ISO's directly so no problem there -- and storing MKV's on HDD is a much better idea than having a load of physical DVD's.

Note also -- if you've ripped the DVD to MKV / MP4 / AVI etc -- VLC will of course still play it without any problem whatsoever - including subtitles.

Cheers
jimbo