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| Parameter | Effect (if supported) | |-----------|------------------------| | (none) | Launch DVD player and attempt to play disc. | | /play | Rarely recognized – some third-party DVD shells mapped this to start playback directly. | | drive letter | e.g., dvdplay D: – on some systems, forces the player to look at drive D: instead of the first DVD drive. | | /close | (Windows XP MCE) – Close DVD player after ejecting disc. |
dvdplay is the official executable name for Windows DVD Player (or its successor, Windows Media Center components) built into older versions of Windows (Windows 98 through Windows 7). The command is used to launch DVD playback from the command line, Run dialog ( Win+R ), or scripts. dvdplay run
However, based on Windows internals documentation and reverse engineering, a few hidden switches exist in certain builds: | | /close | (Windows XP MCE) –
| Parameter | Effect (if supported) | |-----------|------------------------| | (none) | Launch DVD player and attempt to play disc. | | /play | Rarely recognized – some third-party DVD shells mapped this to start playback directly. | | drive letter | e.g., dvdplay D: – on some systems, forces the player to look at drive D: instead of the first DVD drive. | | /close | (Windows XP MCE) – Close DVD player after ejecting disc. |
dvdplay is the official executable name for Windows DVD Player (or its successor, Windows Media Center components) built into older versions of Windows (Windows 98 through Windows 7). The command is used to launch DVD playback from the command line, Run dialog ( Win+R ), or scripts.
However, based on Windows internals documentation and reverse engineering, a few hidden switches exist in certain builds: