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I noticed VLC often crashes under Vista while playing MP3s from a playlist. I think it has something to do with the name of the directory containing the MP3 file, as renaming the directory to something short like "foo" apparently solved the problem. As far as I can tell there is no relatio...

Here comes my fool-proof tutorial for ripping DVDs with VLC on Windows: 1) Insert a DVD into your DVD drive. 2) Start VLC, go to the menu File - Open Disc. 3) Enable the "Stream/save" option, press the "Settings" button. 4) Change the options to look like this: http://img03.picoo...

I just noticed this works only for the displaying of the video but not for the stream saving. Is there any way to apply a fixed resolution (or aspect ratio) to the saved stream as well?

Hello, I've been doing this in the past and I always used the default settings (Encapsulation method: "MPEG TS", Transcoding options: None). It worked quite well but the files tend to be HUGE, like 6 GB and more for just one DVD. I wanted to reduce the file size so I tried opening the file...

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Hello there, Is it possible to define the aspect-ratio for a DVD without having to use the main menu (Video -> Aspect-ratio)? I want to be able to start playback with the correct ratio, right now I have to change the ratio after playback has started. I was thinking of using the "Open..." w...

I can't get the VLC context menu items installed with Windows Vista. I checked the corresponding options during the installation and I tried it more than once (with admin priviledges) but there are still no context menu items. I have no idea what might be wrong here. Any ideas? Thanks