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Originally posted by Rick Lee
I am trying to view a DIY DVD for my motorcycle. Worked fine on my old laptop. New one is giving me this error message. Any quick work around here that doesn't require me to buy something online?
"Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer."
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Windows Media player does not have the right decoders to read the DVD. Have you played the DVD before?
Windows charges for the decoders here -
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/plugins.aspx#DVDDecoder
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Go here and get yourself a free player.
http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0-1-0.html?qt=dvd+player&author=&titlename=&desc=&dlcount=&daysback=&swlink=&gfiletype=&os=128&li=49&dlsize=&ca=
If you have a DVD burner, it is likely you have DVD playing software on the disk that came with that drive that all you need to do is install.