On 18/09/2012 10:30, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:24:07 +0100, Janet Tweedy wrote:

It's only a disc from the Andrew Robson Bridge Club - has card play and
lessons so should be bog standard.

So a physical disc not a file you have downloaded.

Does the drawer of the player have any mention of DVD embossed onto it?

If "No" you don't have the required hardware to play a DVD. Stop.

If "Yes" try VLC, as previously linked, to play the disc.

If VLC fails is the disc a commercially produced stammped DVD one or a
short run home produced "burnt" DVD? A home produced DVD might be a bad
burn. Try it in a normal DVD player and TV.

Worth pointing out that external DVD rewriter drives can be had these
days for about £30-40 from Aldi for instance. Amazon is even cheaper:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-SE-2...7962027&sr=8-2

Just about anything will do to read a DVD - burning them requires a more
sophisticated drive with buffer overrun protection if as seems likely
your PC is slow, elderly and memory constrained.

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Regards,
Martin Brown