How to Use Real Player to Play DVDs

The program Real Player is a piece of software used for media functions like listening to music, burning movies and watching DVDs. The default format for the Player is "RM" for videos and "RA" for music. The program is often used to stream movies from the Internet, but it can handle playing DVD movies from your DVD-ROM drive just as easily.

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  Insert a DVD into your DVD drive on your computer.

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  Click "Start" in Windows and select "Real Player." Or, select the program when it appears on-screen automatically in response to the DVD.

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  Click on the "Play" menu at the top of the program window. Select "Play CD or DVD." Select the drive with the DVD if you have more than one drive. The DVD begins playing in the "Now Playing" tab in Real.