I have a sneaky feeling this is going to be one of those DRM issues. I'm pretty sure the reason for the media player control not being able to read DVD formats is the encoding and that is due to DRM copyrights. I could be wrong but I feel correct about this.

take a look at these links. Mahhala - WPF MediaKit[^] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1321819/mediaelement-support-in-wpf[^] Hope this helps