Playing DVD films

I have bought a TV series and one of the discs doesn't play in my Panasonic DVD player/recorder. As this was the last disc in the series I was pretty annoyed so I thought I would try to see if my laptop would read and play the offending disc.

Just to be sure it just wasn't me doing something wrong I tried a disc that I know plays in the Panasonic but even this will not play on the laptop.

I Googled for a program to do this with and installed VLC and yep no playback so doesn't 10 support any video playback - I don't want it as a regular feature but as this is the second DVD disc just recently to not play it would be nice to just be able to check discs on the laptop - an Asus G750JM ROG so plenty of graphics power..
Any ideas please as it seems one is being able to do less and less in 10 than previous versions of Windows like beign able to test a disc like I have been trying to do unless I am doing something wrong or not possible

I would recommend VLC for DVDs and the Blueray player mentioned above.

If disc does not play in a standalone player, I am guessing the disk is borked. Where did you buy it?

Ok to answer a few the DVD set was bought at a local DVD/CD store I have tried VLC and if I insert the disk nothing shows up in D: drive. I can rip and burn music disks so I am not sure if it is a hardware problem though it is no big deal to swap in new one if need be.

I'll try that Leawo player and the Kodi if neither play the disks then I will just leave it.

However it could be the disks as I recently bought another TV series from the same store (a large national franchise) and it had a defective disk in the set but maybe this could just be a coincidence.

Ah well if all else fails I can try my 7 machines I never had problems with those just seems to me that everything is so convoluted now for plebs like me as I am finding 10 other than just general stuff like emails hard to use.

Hmm well I tried it on my small Asus laptop with a dual boot 7 / 10 and in 7 the disk played straight away no problems at all.

I was interested to see if it would because this smaller Asus laptop with just 7 on it before I made it dual boot kept me sane during my 14 week stay in hospital just after Xmas last year by allowing me to watch films etc. So in my mind a backward step using 10 for this and I find a few other aspects of 10 and yes I know I will burn in hell for saying so.

The other odd thing is now the disk is playing in my Panasonic player/recorder now??