I have just stumbled upon a great piece of DVD software. Many Windows users are surprised to find out that the included Microsoft Media Player software on Windows PC’s is unable to play DVD’s. This comes to a shock to many people because who would think that a powerful computer running Windows couldn’t play DVD’s out of the box. This shortcoming is for various reasons that I won’t get into, however fear not, there is hope.

The VLC media player is a free product that can flawlessly play any DVD. It can also play various other video formats without the need to install codecs. Visit http://www.videolan.org/ for more information and to download your copy.