At some point Microsoft will - might? - have a better solution, but for now that’s how you can keep enjoying your personal DVD library while running Windows 10.Windows Media Player lacks compatibility with many frequently-used video and audio formats. So that’s the easy way to play DVDs in Windows 10. 🙂Īt this point I can click on individual regions of the DVD menu to pick episodes, bonus features, etc. Choose the right one and click “Select Folder”.Īnd that’s it! VLC Player will scan the drive and show you the main menu for the movie: Either way, you’ll want to choose your own DVD disk:Īs you can see near the bottom, mine’s “E:”. You can change that by either typing in “E:\” or clicking on “Browse…”.
The only problem: On my Win10 system, the DVD is actually device E: not D: as is the default for the program. It’s more than a bit nerdy, but you can ignore just about everything.
Then, as the HUGE arrow suggests, choose Open Disc… All the default settings are fine, including installing the 32-bit version even if you have a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows 10, as I did.Įventually you’ll get here, where you can launch the program itself: (soon enough there’ll be a more Win10 friendly installer, but for now, this will work fine)Ĭlick “Next>” and step through as needed. To start, go to the site and download the program:ĭoesn’t take long to download and in the Edge browser, you’ll have a slightly different prompt: It’s actually my go-to player for quite a lot of different operating systems, so it’s great to know it works just fine on Win10 too. But when? So far it’s missing in action…īut don’t worry, I have a great solution for you and it’s free, open source code. What most bugs me about this is that there’s a vague “after the upgrade, Windows DVD Player will download automatically”. Here’s what Microsoft says on the ostensible download page: Heard that Microsoft’s got something up its sleeve? Well, maybe. Hmm… there’s no “play DVD” option, is there?Ĭlick on the Store option and they’re all apps you need to buy:Ī “Whaaaat?” is appropriate at this point.
Your first inclination might be to just slip in a DVD and see what happens. That’s likely to happen in the very near future, actually, because while there’s so much of Windows 10 that’s a solid step forward after the rather messy Windows 8 user interface experience, a whole lot of users still want to be able to slip a DVD into their PC or laptop and watch the movie on screen. They already have the code - it’s part of Windows Media Player - so why not just create a simple DVD player app and include it as part of the OS? Rather surprisingly, Microsoft made the decision to omit a DVD player app in its new Windows 10 operating system, though I don’t really understand why.
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