In article , Phil Cook
writes

You are trying to play a DVD disc on your computer, right?

Then go he http://www.videolan.org/ to download free, open source
video player software. No trackers, no malware, no trackers, no ads.

Sorry if this has already been covered, but does the machine actually
have a dvd player or is it just a cd player? Most recent ones will play
dvds, but it wasn't always so.

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regards andyw