Cannot play DVDs on laptop or desktop

[XabbaRus]

Well WMP does not play any DVD on either laptop or desktop.

Says there is not the appropriate decoder.

I put on MS decoder checker and no MPEG-2 decoder found.

WTF. Where have they gone? I watched DVDs a couple of months ago.

Please help as nothing is working right now.

[kiwi_2005]

Try KM player
http://kmplayer.en.softonic.com/

or

VLC Media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

What windows media player can't play, guaranteed the above players will.

Otherwise if you don't want any other player you might need the right codecs I have found in the past K-lite codecs was spot on for windows media player issues. You can choose the right one for your os

http://www.free-codecs.com/

[Sailor Steve]

That is frustrating, but Kiwi is right. I have four or five different players I downloaded for free, and what one won't play one of the others almost always will.

[XabbaRus]

WEll the odd thing is a couple of months ago all my dvds were playing fine.

Wonder what happened there.