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jpjordan
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September 15, 2021
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Sharing a video from DVD

  • September 15, 2021
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It's not looking like I can share my screen so folks can see a video I'm playing on my DVD player. Is that right?

 

    Best answer by acrosbie

    Hey there, 

    In many cases, player apps prevent commercial DVDs from being streamed by services due to copyright issues. 

    Hopefully this helps.

    Thanks,

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    acrosbie
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    acrosbieAnswer
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    September 15, 2021

    Hey there, 

    In many cases, player apps prevent commercial DVDs from being streamed by services due to copyright issues. 

    Hopefully this helps.

    Thanks,

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    LibrarianMarie
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    December 13, 2022

    Could you elaborate? I'm a librarian and an advocacy group would like us to play a movie over Zoom to a very large audience. I'm very much concerned about copyright laws and digital rights management. I tried to play a DVD over Zoom a few months ago and Zoom blocked it. We pay for the rights to show the film. I have some people trying to tell me that it's perfectly fine to play a DVD over Zoom. 

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    jpjordanAuthor
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    December 13, 2022

    I was successful in playing a DVD movie over Zoom to my non-profit group with the VLC Media Player. You can download it here: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/. Once installed and opened, insert your DVD into your computer and open the DVD into the Media Player which will play it. Then you can share your screen in Zoom to show it to your participants. I used a Mac powerbook to do this.

     

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