HELP! My dvd drive wont work!!?

I just bought a new labtop bring it home put in a dvd and try to play it on windows media player and it says cannot play because the correct dvd codec is not installed. lol what is that codec called and were do i download it from can u guys give me a sight? thanks everybody

Answers:
u need a dvd decoder ... and i doubt u need an avi codec .. try this for dvds ..
http://www.avsmedia.com/dvdplayer/downlo...

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http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/... get those and you should be all set. you may even want to get the dvix codecs wich are also on that site off to your left. for sound should that ever arise you may want to get this ac3 filter. http://sourceforge.net/project/downloadi...
www.videolan.org this media player has FREE codecs, where as with WMP you buy them...I HIGHLY recommend it
You can try to download a free dvd player, but I would recommend investing 40-50 bucks and buying Win DVD, or something like that. You can get it at download.com, or at their site. I had the same thing until I realized that computers don't usually come with DVD players installed...;)

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