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‎01-27-2022 07:46 PM

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Product: HP Spectre x360 - 13t-aw000 CTO
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have a notebook Spectre with windows 10, one year old.  I purchased an external CD/DVD RW drive to watch my own videos and music.  The drive is Ziweo brand.  Bringing up music was no problem but can't get a video to  auto run or run at all.  Is there software needed to do this that doesn't come with the Spectre?  Is it possible to watch DVDS from the external drive with this notebook, if so, how is it done?

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‎01-27-2022 07:56 PM

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Hi:

 

W10 does not come with any DVD playing software.

 

I recommend that you use the free VLC media player you can get from the Microsoft Store.

 

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‎01-27-2022 09:56 PM

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Thank You!  I will give that a try.

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‎01-27-2022 10:03 PM

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You're very welcome.

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‎01-27-2022 10:13 PM

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It appears that VLC Media Player only works on DVDs if you get the Pro version and pay $5.99 every 3 months.  Was a good try.

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‎01-27-2022 10:17 PM

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Hi:

 

Unless they changed the requirements recently, I am running that very version installed from the Microsoft Store for free to play DVD's on some of my HP notebooks.

 

Try the version from their site.

 

Download official VLC media player for Windows - VideoLAN

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