Jo-Anne wrote:
"Jo-Anne" wrote in message
"BillW50" wrote in message

Jo-Anne
Just curious, have you ever tried to change under Explorer (file manager)
under Tools-Folder Options and select the third tab called File Types?
Here the third one down is called DVD Video. Select this one and press
the Advanced button. It should list something like this:

Play
Play with PowerDVD (in bold)
Play with VLC media player

Select the VLC one. Then press the Set Default button (now this one
should be in bold). That should now open DVD movies with VLC instead of
PowerDVD.


I set VLC as the default, but PowerDVD still came up. I restarted the
computer; PowerDVD still came up. I deleted PowerDVD from the "list." It
no longer comes up--but VLC doesn't either. I have to open VLC, click on
Open Disc, and click Open. This is all on a DVD I had run earlier. So I
tried a new DVD, and it makes a strange sound spinning, doesn't stop
spinning, and VLC isn' working at all with it. I inserted one of the DVDs
I had run before, and it works OK--although I still have to open VLC and
manually start it.

From what I can see, this SHOULD have worked. I can't understand why it
hasn't--and I don't know what to do about the DVD that won't run at all.

Addendum: I did finally get the new DVD to play. I don't know what went
wrong the first time. So the only issue is having to start VLC rather than
having it automatically play the DVDs.

Duh. As I wrote before, the only application that will play DVDs
upon inserting them, is the one listed in the AutoPlay tab of your DVD
drive, under DVD movie. (You never said what applications you see
there.) The entry you've been setting in Folder Options, following
Bill's advice, is for right-clicking an already inserted and
identified DVD disk, it is *not* for automatically playing it.

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