External DVD player — not playing DVD movie — in Windows 10 Home — laptop

It's an [ LG M⋅DISC Super Multi ] RW player, that does everything. Although previously, to date, I've only ever used it for ripping music CD's to our Windows 11 hard drives. And it's always worked great for that. But I just inserted a DVD (purchased from: Sunshine Vintage Movies, of an old 1967 movie), after receiving it, to preview it, and nothing happened on the laptop I'm using, except for an 'AutoPlay' pop-up - that says:

DVD RW Drive (E):
Choose what to do with DVD movies.

[ pic of Windows app store ] Find a new DVD App Store
[ red circle w/diag slash thru it ] Take no action

. . Same pop-up appears if I click on the DVD RW Drive (E): in File Explorer > then right click > then click on 'Open AutoPlay' ... 

. . And our Windows Media Player only shows videos that we've shot from our phones, but no apparent link to the DVD movie I've put in the externa player.

. . And both the iTunes & Windows Media Player 's play music CD's super fine.

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?