Set DVDs to autoplay with "Movies & TV"?

martinlest · Oct 31, 2024

The only options I have in the drop-down autoplay menu are VLC player, do nothing, ask me every time or find a new app (store). If I want to have DVDs autoplay with another app (such as "Movies & TV"), do I need to add a registry entry, or is there another way?

Thanks.

antspants · Oct 31, 2024

I’m fairly certain the Movies & TV app was updated recently and no longer works the way it once did.
I believe it is now solely for renting or buying movies or tv shows from Microsoft.

antspants · Oct 31, 2024

Also, allegedly Microsoft stopped bundled native DVD Playback since Windows 8 - They licensed the built in codec for DVD Playback from Phillips and stopped paying the royalty license fees.

So you’ll need to buy a player in the Microsoft store or find a 3rd party app from somewhere else.

martinlest · Oct 31, 2024

I’m fairly certain the Movies & TV app was updated recently and no longer works the way it once did.

Could be: I only use it currently in Windows 10. I suppose I will have to keep using VLC Player then.

antspants · Oct 31, 2024

martinlest said:
Could be: I only use it currently in Windows 10. I suppose I will have to keep using VLC Player then.

I’m not saying you can’t be here, but did you know there is a TenForums sister site?

Ten Forums - Windows 10 Help and Support Forum

Windows 10 troubleshooting help and support forum, plus thousands of tutorials to help you fix, customize and get the most from Microsoft Windows 10.

www.tenforums.com

glasskuter · Oct 31, 2024

@antspants is correct. Movies and Tv is primarily a purchasing app and can not be used to as an autoplay option. It can be used to manage and play your video collection files stored on your computer along with Media Player or Media Player Legacy. Those are not offered as autolay options either. If VLC is the only app on your computer that windows recognizes as a valid autoplay option, you will have to use it or install another application that will register with autoplay. There's few out there that can rival VLC in all that it can handle both in autoplay and the number of different files types it can open.

Bree · Oct 31, 2024

martinlest said:
The only options I have in the drop-down autoplay menu are VLC player, do nothing, ask me every time or find a new app (store). If I want to have DVDs autoplay with another app (such as "Movies & TV"), do I need to add a registry entry, or is there another way?

antspants said:
I’m fairly certain the Movies & TV app was updated recently and no longer works the way it once did.

Even if you still have the older Movies & TV, it could never play DVDs. It could only play your own personal .mp4 videos, but that function has now been removed from the current version. VLC is a good DVD player, stick with that.

antspants · Oct 31, 2024

glasskuter said:
It can be used to manage and play your video collection files stored on your computer

I believe they disabled that option (maybe recently) in Movies & TV

antspants · Oct 31, 2024

Bree said:
Even if you still have the older Movies & TV, it could never play DVDs. It could only play your own personal .mp4 videos, but that function has now been removed from the current version. VLC is a good DVD player, stick with that.

Yes like I mentioned, since all the way back to Windows 8 there has been no native DVD player.

Bree · Oct 31, 2024

glasskuter said:
Movies and Tv is primarily a purchasing app and can not be used to as an autoplay option. It can be used to manage and play your video collection files stored on your computer....

Not if you let the Store update it to the current version, the Personal tab has now been removed.

(for the UK market it's called Films & TV, exactly the same thing though)

Bree · Oct 31, 2024

antspants said:
, since all the way back to Windows 8 there has been no native DVD player.

I have one, I got it from Microsoft for free when I upgraded from Win7 to Win10 at the launch. It was a limited time offer, you'd have to buy it now (not that you'd want it, there are better DVD players available, VLC for a start). I still have it in windows 11 on my System One, as I had migrated that W10 OS from my old machine to a supported device in order to get the W11 upgrade.

The Windows DVD Player app is available for free for eligible Windows 10 upgrades - Microsoft Support

Describes the free Windows DVD Player app that is available if you upgrade from an entitled version of Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.

support.microsoft.com

martinlest · Oct 31, 2024

I’m not saying you can’t be here, but did you know there is a TenForums sister site?

Yes, thanks, I use it often - but the question relates to my Windows 11 PC.

Thanks for the other replies.

VLC is a good player, I've used it for many years, but I got so frustrated trying to make the current tiny pause, stop, play etc. icons at the bottom of the interface bigger (no idea how long I spent Googling and trying suggestions to no avail) that I thought it might be quicker just to change players! (I use it on a touchscreen laptop and it is almost impossible to use those little buttons - far smaller than my fingertips) accurately - the same with the ubiquitous minimise and close 'icons' at the top-right).

Not the subject of this thread of course, but if anyone does know how to get those VLC interface buttons much larger, that would be a great help

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