Vista laptop won't play my DVDs

[AlanHK]

I made a few DVDs for a friend who was spending some time in hospital, authored in GfD.

These played without incident on my PC and several different DVD players.

However, he told me the laptop, running Vista, could not see the DVDs at all.

I thought that PC DVD drives were more likely to attempt to play most discs than players.

The DVDs were Verbatim, and in any case worked in my PC, so I doubt they are bad.

The laptop can play retail DVDs. Could this be some DRM foolishness? There is no region encoding in my discs, of course.

Does VLC work in Vista, or are there any other soft players that might do better (I don't use Vista, so can't check myself).

[Baldrick]

The dvd drive may not just like those verbatim dvdrs. Can your friend see any files on the DVD if browsing with windows explorer?

VLC works fine in Vista.