The last External DVD drive i bought would not play movies at all on my asus is that a dvd drive issue or my laptop?
185730
My Asus is hooked up to my iMac and I have no problems playing movies using just USB power from the bigger of the two USB cords on the pigtail that comes with the unit.I have not tried it with a laptop.
185731
It's hard to say, however it is most likely your laptop. You do need software on your computer that can play DVD's. I've personally used this drive to play DVD's without issue.
185732
I would assume it would be an issue with the codecs installed on your laptop. Go to the asus website and install latest updates for codecs & software. This should correct your problem.
2144485
It does not have a built in DVD drive so you will not be able to out of the box. You could get an external DVD drive if you really needed it.
2262032
No. DVD drives can be defective. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
578033
There is not an internal dvd drive. There are USB ports, a card slot and an HDMI port.
2067746
YES, any DVD can be read by the Asus dvd/dvdrw, its a reader and writer + or - device.
1414678
Make sure your pc/laptop is identify. I have window 8 and also had partial the dvd was not function correctly and that i found to do extra steps to get it to final function fully. Here is the website that help on does extra steps http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03370738&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en#N167 hopefully help you out.
2092906
Yes. I can't remember if we just plugged it in and it worked or if we downloaded it online, but it works. We bought this BECAUSE our daughter's laptop didn't have a dvd drive and it works great with it.
896663
You need to use an external USB DVD player. It is a great computer. Boots almost instantly. Very fast and powerful.
461740
Asus makes a decent, inexpensive external drive. I use this one:ASUS External Slim 8X DVD-RW Stylish Cut Design Optical Drive SDRW-08D2S-U/BLK/G/AS
1462613
Do you have software that will recognize Blu ray discs? I had to purchase WinDVD 10 to get my computer to recognize my discs. B/c if the laptop didn't come with a blu ray drive it won't recognize this new drive b/c it wasn't designed for it.
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I've used it and have much trouble with the dvd and ended up buying an external dvd drive, which also won't load a dvd
1966267
It did in the beginning and then it just quit playing them. I took it to the Geek Squad and they were unsuccessful in getting it to play DVD's again. Evidently, it has something to do with the Windows 8. They told me that I could buy a Video Media Center from Microsoft to resolve the problem but since they were not able to install a "Free" Video Media Center, I declined their offer.
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I've tried a few different video file formats, including some MP4, and it's played them fine from a USB thumb drive. Since the screen itself isn't HD, I haven't tried any HD files in there, but I can verify that up to DVD quality resolution it plays media files just fine.
600158
Try another disk, if that doesn't change then possibly your missing or damaged driver for the drive. Other possibly the drive I'd bad.
1579375
There is no CD/DVD drive on Asus Vivobook. I bought extrenal blu-ray drive to connect Asus Vivobook. Thanks.
245943
No, this laptop is in a class called "Ultrabook," there is no drive for playing CDs or DVDs.
784713
An external DVD can work to a limited read-only degree, my samsung "slim external" did, but it will not play factory entertainment DVDs or audio CDs, it will only read data CDs or data DVDs.