On my Acer R7, I did the upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center in order to get several additional features.
One thing I am still struggling with is DVD playback. It was quite some time after installing the upgrade pack before I realized I cant play a DVD in windows media player. For some reason windows media player identifies the disc as "unknown" and says "this disc is empty" for ANY DVD I insert (using an external drive).
Just to make sure it wasnt a drive issue, I found an ISO of a DVD and mounted it on another computer and it plays back fine in windows media player (windows 7). I copied that iso to the R7 and mounted it and I get the same error (unknown disc, and "this disc is empty")
DVDs play back fine with VLC and windows media CENTER, but I just dont like those interfaces for DVD playback. I have tried multiple commercial DVDs and none of them will play in WMP.
Has anyone here seen this before?
I have tried removing and reinstalling windows media center and media player via "add/remove windows features".
I'm at a loss here. This is not a big enough deal to reinstall windows, but I would really like to get it working.
I dont want to purchace windvd or powerdvd when I should be able to use WMP.
