My PC won't play DVDs properly?

Last night I was capping something and my drive was working fine. I finished doing what I was doing and went to watch a dvd later on. Now, when I tried to watch the DVD for some reason it wasn't playing properly. The sound is all distorted and the images are all weird, it's as if the computer is running slow when it's playing...when it's not. The picture kinda slows then speeds up. Now, I know that it's not the DVD because I have tried numerous. I think maybe the lens has gone or it may be something to do with the way the drive reads the DVDs.

When I try and put the DVD say in windows media player of real player I get the message that the player cannot play the DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card.

Can anyone help?

My PC won't play DVDs properly?ktm

That sounds like a Windows Vista problem.

If you are using XP then it not likely a DRM issue although Windows update does make changes to your system and Microsoft may have recently added something to the XP updates that could cause that to happen.

Try using Divx player to play your DVD.

It is free and will play just about anything.

My PC won't play DVDs properly?nortan

Is it working but slow or not working at all?
Try FREE AVS DVD Player. http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/avs-dvd-play...