GOM Media Player will play DVDs on your Windows 8 system as well as virtually every other type of multimedia file. You’ll need Windows 8 Pro, or if you have the core version, you’ll need to purchase the Pro upgrade with Media Center. It’s currently free through January 2013. Check out how to install Windows Media Center pack to Windows 8 Pro. But, you can install it as a separate download. Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, removed Windows Media Center from Windows 8. Open Computer, right click on the DVD drive and select Play with VLC Media Player. After installing VLC, it adds itself to the Context Menu. It plays virtually any music or video file type out there. It has been a mandatory program on all of my Windows and Mac systems. It just read the data files on the optical disc.įirst, take a look at our favorite media player – VLC. Microsoft is taking out codecs if previously included in every release. It sees the DVD, but there’s no native playback. I inserted a DVD into my Windows 8 Release Preview computer just to see what it does.
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