How to Play DVD on A Laptop Computer?

Q: "Is there any solution to play my DVD movies on HP laptop running Windows 10 OS? I have tried several way but fail to open DVD disc. Need your help!"

With a portable laptop, you can do anything like working, surfing on-line, and watching favorite movies, etc as you like. For DVD collectors, if you face the problem that can't play DVD on a laptop computer, you can read this tutorial to get some useful tips.

Part I. Steps to Play DVD on Laptop

1. Insert DVD
Insert DVD to laptop built-in disc drive, the laptop may has a combined DVD/CD reader/writer on the side of the keyboard. If you have an external disc drive, insert the USB plug into one of the ports on your laptop. Open the disc tray and insert the DVD. Close the tray.
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2. Choose a player
In Windows, choose the Autoplay option in the pop-up box. Next, choose the default media player to view the DVD. If you do not see Autoplay, navigate to the My Computer folder and right-click the drive. Select Autoplay. In macOS, use DVD Player to watch the movie. Alternatively, download VLC or another third-party media player from the Internet.
3. Play the movie
After choosing a media player, the movie should start playing. Use the on-screen controls to play, stop, fast-forward and rewind the DVD. When the movie finishes, close the media player, and then press the button on the disc tray to eject the DVD from the drive.

Part II. Digitize DVD for Playing on A Laptop without DVD player

Actually, it is not that convenient to watch DVD movies on your laptop without a DVD drive, so you need to buy the external one. As Windows 10 laptop has drop DVD playback capacity, so you can't play a DVD on Windows 10 laptop. That's why we choose to rip and digitize DVD to popular video formats such as H.264 MP4, QuickTime MOV, MKV, AVI, etc via a third party DVD ripping tool.

Here, Brorsoft DVD Ripper is recommended to rip and convert any (protected) DVD to laptop compatible video formats without losing quality. Besides, it can also convert DVD to all other regular video formats like DivX AVI, XviD AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG-2, H.265 MP4, etc. and extract audio files from DVD. Moreover, video editing functions like clip, rotate, add watermarks, adjust video effects, etc. are provided. If you're using a Mac, turn to Brorsoft DVD Ripper for Mac.
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Step 1. Load DVD Movies

Install and run the best DVD ripper, and click the "Load disc" button to load the DVD movies to the program. The software will directly check and select correct DVD main title to rip, or you can select the title by clicking the checkbox.
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Step 2. Choose output format

Click the "Format" option, and choose H.264 MP4 or MPEG-4 from Common Video profile list.
If you want to keep 1080p resolution as source movie, you can choose those format from "HD Video" category.
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Step 3. Start Ripping DVD

After all the settings, click the Convert button to start converting DVD disc to digital MP4 files for watching on your laptop computer. When the conversion is over, click "open" to locate converted DVD movies.
Then, you can play the converted DVD movies on your laptop or transfer them to any portable media players and devices as you like.

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