How do I play DVD movies on my PC?

PC DVD Drive wont play DVD movies but will load DVD games. Help?

• My DVD drive in my pc loads game dvd's, installs them and plays them perfectley well. But when i try to load a DVD movie it doesn't work, i have tried multiple DVD's none work but they do work on the DVD Player on my TV. When i try to play a DVD through Windows Media Player I get the message "Windows Media Player cannot play DVD video. You might need to adjust your windows display settings...(tells how to)" I have tried this, changing resoloution, bit depth, nothing works, my standard is 1280x1024 32bit. (I am using WMP 11) When i try to play it through Real Player I get a completley different response of "The DVD cannot be played. Key exchange for DVD copy protection failed." Please help me I have tried alternative media players (well, winamp...) and I am about to try PowerDVD. I have made sure that i have the right codecs for playing the movies aswell.

• Answer:

  Neither Windows Media Player or the free version of Real Player have the ability to play DVDs. WMP requires DVD codecs, but these normally require a purchase of some sort (free ones are often unreliable, and may do more harm to your PC than help). PowerDVD, however, was designed from the beginning with playing DVDs in mind. That should definitely play your DVD. If it does not, than the DVDs may have a high level of copyright protection or encryption that will not let you play it off of a computer, because they are worried that people will burn multiple copies of the discs to sell at no profit to the original manufacturer (which is illegal, by the way, yet common, as you saw the above answerer just posted a link to a program that allows this).