Win XP media player not playing DVDs...?

My windows media player with my win xp won't play DVD's, says i'm missing a DVD codec but isn't it standard for Media player to play DVDs? andI mean real legal DVD's to get that out of the way lol, I do have Win 7 RC which is only a trial and it plays DVD's just fine but XP is my main OS and my only DVD player is on my computer. Just wanna see what my options are. Also I have Media player 11.

DVD playback is only supported out of the box on Windows 7. You'll need to add a video codec to play DVDs on XP. Microsoft's list of the best DVD codecs.CellAnimation

Do all of those up convert to HD while playing through my HDtv? or only certain ones?

didn't older versions of media player play DVD;s or am I mistaken?

VLC media player.

Don't worry about all that crap. Just get VLC at www.videolan.org. It has everything you need (in most cases).

Don't worry about all that crap. Just get VLC at www.videolan.org. It has everything you need (in most cases).

fib112

Are you happy with the quality of VLC? either way i'm downloading now to see how it does while watching DVD's on my HDtv.

didn't older versions of media player play DVD;s or am I mistaken?

Prince_Denspion

You're mistaken. You alwaysrequired a codec installed to play DVD's with WMP (or any other player for that matter).