Watching Dvd's And .vob Files On Windows 8 & 10

I have a desktop computer running windows 8.1 and I was trying to watch one of my dvd's recently and found out that I cannot do so. I then tried putting that dvd into my old laptop running windows vista home premium and that dvd and all the others (both those that were made as well as store bought dvd's) can be viewed on that computer.

A friend of mine has also been having issues with trying to watch .vob files on her laptop running windows 8.1. She did try downloading codecs to get those .vob files to run - with no luck.

After doing some research I found out that MS is no longer including the software with the computers. So I was looking into VLC for watching DVD's. I am running Windows 8.1 64bit and I have downloaded it but not yet installed the 64bit version. Is this software in fact going to allow me to watch those dvd's and would you happen to know if it will work with those .vob files as well?

My computer is a Dell and it did come installed with Power DVD but that did not seem to kick in when I put any dvd's into the drive either so I thought that perhaps this VLC software might be the way to go.

Thanks

 

VLC 64bit worked fine for me in Windows 8.1 64bit and still works fine in Windows 10 64bit for those files.
However, if you still want to use Windows Media Player inbuilt, then I suggest you install Shark007's
ADVANCED Codecs for Windows 10 / 8.1 / 7 6.0.4

Word of advice if you do try out Advanced Codes: Any chrome based browser will flag it as malicious, and you have to choose the 'Recover', then 'Keep anyway' - and after that when you try to install it Microsoft Smart Screen will flag it is malicious, and you will need to click the left side small 'More' and choose run it anyway. Initially when MG admins put the download in a zip file it over rode the warnings but now it still gets flagged bad by these inaccurate over zealous protections.

 

Thanks So Very Much for that information. I will just go ahead and install the VLC player and will let my friend know that she can either install the Shark007's Advanced Codecs for Windows 10 / 8.1 or do as I am going to do and just go with VLC.

Thanks so Very Much.

 

You're welcome!