DVD won't play but CD'S will

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DVD won't play but CD'S will in my disc drive all drivers are installed still not working not sure on the problem is it is a new disc drive and worked fine on windows xp any and all help would be appreciated

If it played dvds fine with windows this answer should fix your problems http://askubuntu.com/a/503/71679 — damien, Sep 02 '13 at 23:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 02 '13 at 23:27

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Your problem seems to be more of a hardware issue... If I understand, you have a CD drive that is only compatible with CDs instead of DVDs, which only newer drives will allow. DVDs are dual-layered, and thus, allows more data to be stored. Some drives are unable to read DVDs because of this.

answered Sep 02 '13 at 23:27

Nick D.

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They did say it worked on windows – damien Sep 02 '13 at 23:41
well it did play dvd's at first and will play blank discs but not dvds – user189589 Sep 04 '13 at 10:39

DVD won't play but CD'S will

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