Hi Les Please see my previous post VLC plays DVDs but not well on my PC Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >I have used VLC forever on Windows and Linux, and I guess whatever you got was not VLC. > To play a DVD you just put one in and it plays. > There is an extensive menu system which includes the help. > The menu system gives options to open other media types including network. > > If you didn't see any of that, you have not got VLC. Where did you download it? > > Les Hardy