[saltman]

VLC is a media player. like Nero's Playback. You can't burn with VLC to my knowledge. I just wanted to test and see if it was some kind of Nero setting or another problem.

Windows media player can't play DVDs because it doens't have the mpeg2 codec (ability to decompress the DVD files.) You can get plugins for it but out of the box it won't play DVDs.