DVD Player (Windows)

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DVD Player

DVD Player, running under Windows 11
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Stable release	6.0 (September 24, 2018; 5 years ago (2018-09-24)) [±]
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Predecessor	Windows Media Player Windows Media Center

DVD Player is an app developed by Microsoft that plays DVD-Video on Microsoft Windows. DVD Player was introduced in Windows 98, and was included in Windows ME and Windows 2000 before removal from Windows XP and beyond in favor of "CD/DVD playback functionality" in Windows Media Player.^[1] After Windows XP, DVD playback was built into other apps such as Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center instead. Following the discontinuation of Media Center in Windows 10 and the removal of DVD codecs from Windows 8, DVD Player was reintroduced to Windows 10 as an app available from Microsoft Store.