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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: bigal50 on March 22, 2019, 12:17:56 AM

Title: DVD’s won’t play ??
Post by: bigal50 on March 22, 2019, 12:17:56 AM

I have a Windows 8.1 laptop that won’t play my DVD’s. I keep getting a Error Code that reads. See attached. I tried the solution mentioned. But it didn’t work: here is the message.

Error PL4013: Playback failed due to a problem with the video subsystem. You may be using an unsupported display mode or your system may not have a working decoder installed. Please ensure that your DVD decoder is functioning properly by launching it from Start | Programs.





Thank you 🙏

Albert 0.

Title: Re: DVD’s won’t play ??
Post by: DaveLembke on March 22, 2019, 04:48:01 PM

Download the FREE VLC Player and play the DVD through that and the problem should be fixed.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Title: Re: DVD’s won’t play ??
Post by: BC_Programmer on March 22, 2019, 05:19:31 PM

Dave's option is the way to go. Windows 8 and 8.1 dropped built-in DVD support.

Title: Re: DVD’s won’t play ??
Post by: bigal50 on March 23, 2019, 03:42:27 PM

I downloaded the the VLC DVD player and all is working great !!! Thanks guys !!!

Albert O

Title: Re: DVD’s won’t play ??
Post by: DaveLembke on April 01, 2019, 12:43:10 PM

Cool  8)