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Now, can someone explain why PCs have a software DVD player if I can't watch anything with it?



Like everything else with computers the answer is "it depends". If the disc you put into your DVD player was a commercial disc - read legal - there should have been no problem. If it was a copy you got from your nephews friends second cousin from down the block, chances are it is a illegal copy and yes, WMP won't play something with that encryption on it. That's because Microsoft is way to big to play that game. Other free software players you can download will probably play it. Or not.

This gets into teenage hacking stuff. There's readily available software to rip video off a DVD, remove the encryption, recompress it, the kids then upload it to a pirate movie website and it can simply be downloaded to your hard drive or you can burn it to a DVD and then it'll play. But wait, there's more! It'll play if you have all the codecs installed. They're not standard from MS, you have to find them on the web. When they recompress the movie there's several compression schemes that can be used and your WMP may not have the right codec. Sometimes just installing the correct codec will allow WMP to play it assuming you're not too worried that someone else already removed the encryption and it's illegal for you to possess it...

How do I know this you ask? Because I have that nephew plus my assistant in the office who know all about this stuff.

Bob

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