update of WinDVD stop Media Player DVD playback

So this one took me by surprise.

I've updated my software InterVideo WinDVD (from 4 to 5) using the update available here on the Lenovo Web site

(http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-68730)

Now when I open Windows Media Player to play a DVD, I get a message indicating that:

"DVD playback is not enabled for this drive. Click on [OK} to use InterVideo WinDVD Player for playback. "DVD playback... I would like WinDVD to play this DVD. »

So I click OK and the DVD plays fine in WinDVD.  But I want to play in WMP... I like just the interface better.

Any ideas on how to enable WMP to play the DVD?  He played them well until I update of WinDVD 5.

Thank you

I was so happy that it seemed that Lenovo was trying to solve my problem by posting a new update of WinDVD from their download site:

http://www-307.IBM.com/PC/support/site.WSS/document.do?sitestyle=Lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-56646

The readme file seems to indicate that he would treat my problem of not being able to play DVDs in Windows Media Player.  Unfortunately, it is not not to be.  After uninstalling and reinstalling the new update, I get the same result: WMP is able to read the video but not the audio from the DVD and I get a message indicating that WMP was not allowed to read the DVD I would use WinDVD instead.

So I uninstalled WinDVD, searched my stash of older programs and found one for PowerDVD from CyberLink.  It's an old one (version 4 of 2003), but it did the trick.  My solution is to use instead of WinDVD PowerDVD. WMP plays very well on DVD.

I should have just stuck to WinDVD 4 my system initially provided with, in 1st place, rather than trying to upgrade to WinDVD 5 since the Lenovo download site.

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