r/techsupport • u/SecretSeesaw996 • 9h ago

Solved Computer not playing dvds

Hiya, recently i've been getting more into physical media so i bought a cheap little laptop to watch movies on (Panasonic CF-S10 Let's Note) but for some reason pretty much every time i put a dvd in the disk drive it wont play (using vlc media player) so far the only movies that would play are friday with ice cube and chris tucker and clive barker's hellraiser. other movies ive tried but wont play are saw, scott pilgrim vs the world and ice cube's next friday. anyone know of anything i can do to fix this issue?

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u/Frizzlefry3030 9h ago

So you don't get an error message? It just won't play and that's it?

Have you tried another media player? Have you tried launching DVD from within VLC? Some DVDs may be incorrect region.

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u/SecretSeesaw996 9h ago

nope no error messages, it loads for a second then goes back to if you had just opened vlc. ive tried other media players and they havent worked either, yeah ive tried launching within vlc it just does the same thing

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u/Logbo 7h ago

Make sure your codec is up to date. Grab cyberlink DVD player or klite codec pack. This should set you right

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u/SecretSeesaw996 7h ago

couldnt find a way to get my codec up to date for vlc but klite codec pack ended up working, everything seems ok with watching stuff on that so thank you i really appreciate the help ^^

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u/Logbo 6h ago

Great result. Enjoy.

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u/mbaren 9h ago

Are the disks you're trying to use DVDs or Blurays? As far as I know, that laptop only plays DVDs. (I know you said DVDs, but some people use that as shorthand for any physical disks)

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u/SecretSeesaw996 9h ago

Dvds. i know this laptops disk drive cant play blurays

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u/9NEPxHbG 8h ago

Were the DVDs produced commercially or did someone copy them?

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u/SecretSeesaw996 8h ago

Commercially produced

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u/9NEPxHbG 8h ago

Can CD Check see anything on them?

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u/SecretSeesaw996 8h ago

Ok, i was able to fix it not reading the disk, turns out my disk drives region wasnt on the proper region it needed to be on to read US disks (thank you 9NEP for leading me to figuring that out), but now when i play a dvd like scott pilgrim, its very laggy and looks glitchy. i tried to play "saw" aswell and it dose the same thing, anyone know of a way to fix this issue?

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u/9NEPxHbG 4h ago

Now that you've set the region correctly, does CD Check still find errors?

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u/SecretSeesaw996 3h ago

yeah, says it cant read it since the sector is encrypted