I tried searching but nothing came up. The issue here is its a surface RT so the regular windows stuff wont work. I tried seeing if I could connect a dvd drive, it recognized the drive but it needs a program to play it... any thoughts?
Try downloading a media player, like VLC 32-bit / 64-bit
Surface RT doesn't support regular windows programs. It needs to be a Metro / Modern app. Additionally, you should never download VLC from sources other than the official site, since many of them have viruses..
This is actually a trustable source that I use a lot.