# DVD playback on laptop not working

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**Created:** [October 25, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dvd-playback-on-laptop-not-working/37627 "2007-10-25T20:23:50Z")\
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[quote=“JustinH,post:5,topic:37627"”]

do you have the latest divx codecs on it?

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I think those are what screwed it up in the first place.

I’ve got WinDVD back now. Fortunately Dell included that disc with my laptop when I bought it some 5 years ago. I didn’t want to load right away which made me think I had a CD/DVD drive issue, when it finally did load the disc and install WinDVD again, the DVD playback was all choppy.

I took the drive out, cleaned the lens and pulled a little chunk of dog fur out from the spinner thinger in the center. Seems to be working well now.

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