Using DVD drive to watch a movie CD

HI, Hope somebody can help me here. Usint Windows me:
I rented a CD DVD movie thinking I could watch it on my 17" monitor but it won't play. Excuse my ignorance but I been living in Mexiceo for the past 15 years and don't know diddly about DVD, etc.
I did learn that I need to install some software but the software I found to download stated that I need DirectX installed and I can't get my puter to install anything from Microsoft. Posted this problem some days ago and haven't got a fix for it yet.
Thanks.

 

Hi,
You should have software that came with your dvde player that you can load. It is the decoder software that is required to watch a dvd. Some popular ones are power dvd, or windvd, and pc friendly. Hope this is not a stupid question but you do have a dvd installed in your pc and not a cdrom or cdrw? Only a dvd player can play dvd's. Hope this is some help.
Hamill

 

Thanks for the reply. Yes I do have a DVD drive but I bought it at an auction on Egghead and I got nothing with the drive. No CD w/install or nada.
I just did a search and found another post about this thing and someone recommended a program called Zoom Player. I am there now looking at the download. What I wonder is do I need to have this DirectX thing installed?? This site with the zoom download doesn't say one anything about it.

 

Direct x will be included with the dvd decoder software. If zoom is free go for it. It will most likely work for you.
Good Luck,
Hamill

 

Thanks, Hamil.
I went to the site for zoom and downloaded their program. It installed nicely which as I said earlier MS programs won't install on my puter!!! Clic'd on the icon it had installed on my desktop and it tried to install again. I used explorer to find the installation of zoom and opened their read me file. There it said that DIRECTX was necessary to be installed. I am afraid that that will be the case for all multimedia type programs. I just don't know what to do about this problem of not being able to install DIRECTX and other MS programs.