I rarely use my external DVD player anymore with the advent of Amazon Prime and Sling Internet TV which I subscribe to and watch on my bigscreen.
I did however watch a few DVD's on my 'puter from the old home movies from the '80'-'90's which I had converted from VHS to DVD format.
Now let me backtrack a bit and excuse me for jumping all over the place as I'm a computer idiot.
In order to play DVD's via my computer DVD drive, I downloaded this freeware and it has worked great for me:
Good luck!
I’ll second the comment about VLC. Great software, at least on the Mac, I haven’t tried the Windows version, but it’s probably just as good.
I’m going to give it a whirl! Thanks so much...I really appreciate it.