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DVDs Not Recognized

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by vsmenon

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My Win XP SP3 does not recognize DVDs.
I have a CD-DVD RW drive installed.
CDs work fine.
Motherboard: ASUS P5G41C M-LX.
IDE Hard Drive of 80GB in use.

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by who am i really

DVD movies
only XP Media Center edition could play DVDs from a stock install

XP Home and Pro require a third party app with an MPEG-2 decoder
or a stand alone MPEG-2 decoder

by oh smeg

But mostly with XP you need a Dedicated DVD Player and not rely on Media Player to play your DVD Format Movies. ;)

Col

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