Hi Alan, First thing is to upgrade to Media Player 11, it should work then. All the best Steve _____ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of alan pollard Sent: Monday 15 December 2008 22:24 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] playing dvd's in :W M P 9 Hi List, having just recently changed up to a :X P pro machine and attempting to play a ,D V D disk jaws advises me that windows media Player 9 cant play this :dvd as compatible decodeing software is not installed on this computer.I tried 2 or 3 other disks all with same results. Incidently as the computer has 2 ram draws, I am of cource using the:cd dvd draw.Could some one advise me what I need to fix this problem please ?.Thanks in advance. regards Alan