Trouble playing home made DVDs on computer

[m***@.]

Hi,

My old 32 bit Windows XP computer would play videos I record with a digital 8 mm
video camera and then put on DVD with a DVD recorder, by opening the DVD player
on the computer then opening the VIDEO_TS folder then double clicking on
VTS_01_1.VOB ( _2., _3. etc) and the default GOM Player would open and play
them. But in my new 64 bit Windows 10 computer I don't have GOM Player and try
playing those vids the same way using Windows Media Player but it won't do
anything trying it that way. Trying to drag and drop a + sign comes up, but
still it won't do anything. Copying them to the Video Folder, then highlighting
the icon and selecting Open With, Windows Media Player will play them but it
doesn't split the videos the way it does on DVD players. Can anyone suggest a
good way of doing this? Can anyone explain why it won't play these DVDs like it
does things I buy, but all DVD players I've put them in play them just fine with
no problems bringing up the menu like they're supposed to?

Thank you for any help with this!
David

[Carl Fink]

Post by m***@.
Hi,
My old 32 bit Windows XP computer would play videos I record with a digital 8 mm
video camera and then put on DVD with a DVD recorder, by opening the DVD player
on the computer then opening the VIDEO_TS folder then double clicking on
VTS_01_1.VOB ( _2., _3. etc) and the default GOM Player would open and play
them. But in my new 64 bit Windows 10 computer I don't have GOM Player and try
playing those vids the same way using Windows Media Player but it won't do
anything trying it that way. Trying to drag and drop a + sign comes up, but
still it won't do anything. Copying them to the Video Folder, then highlighting
the icon and selecting Open With, Windows Media Player will play them but it
doesn't split the videos the way it does on DVD players. Can anyone suggest a
good way of doing this? Can anyone explain why it won't play these DVDs like it
does things I buy, but all DVD players I've put them in play them just fine with
no problems bringing up the menu like they're supposed to?

Windows Media Player is not recognizizing the DVD format, for whatever
reason. I suspect a different layer (e. g. VLC) would work. VOB files are
just MPEG2 video files, BTW.