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Dirk, thanks. Yes, EAC works great. A companion tool I use a lot is RazorLame, a GUI front-end for LAME. I like that it can batch-process multiple files. And I especially appreciate the combined ability to directly specify LAME's command line options (including filling in fields of the ID3 tag), whi...

You are welcome, Dirk, I had been using the tools I suggested long before I got VLC. Plus, I've had little success in trying to transcode or do related types of processing with it; unfortunately the documentation on this is inadequate (or way too difficult to find). One way to avoid having such a bi...

I use DGIndex to extract all audio tracks from one or more VOB files, mostly this gives you a single .ac3 file. DGIndex does have an option to covert the audio on-the-fly to Wave, but I've read that its converter isn't the best. The program PX3 AC3 to WAV was recommended for converting to Wave after...

Is there a version that fixes this issue? Or is there a version coming soon that will? http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9897512-12.html Thanks. If you had traced this advisory back to its original source , you would have seen that it dates from 2007-12-25 it's about version 0.8.6d the vulnerabil...

Tried to play with (no menu) ? No, I didn't think of that. Thanks. Now that I've tried it, it doesn't fix the problem. In fact, I tried it five times and got several different behaviors. The first two times -- with "No DVD menus" checked on the Disc Open dialog -- I saw the menu any way. ...

Try using DVD Decrypter to make yourself a copy onto HDD.
And then try playing it in VLC.

Thanks for the suggestion. Same result: still no video.
Which indicates that encryption is not the source of the
problem.

VLC 0.9.4 does not correctly play the movie on this commercial DVD: Whisper of the Heart Walt Disney / Buena Vista Home Entertainment ISBN: 0-7888-3404-5 Disk 1 The DVD menu comes up okay, but once I select "Play" from the menu, the screen turns black. After about 35 seconds, I hear the so...

Wow, you just solved one of my longest running PC issues! Thank you!
Seems I'll be able to play a lot more of my games too now.

My pleasure. I figured there'd be other folks with the same problem
who could use the tip.

Could you provide a small sample file? I uploaded the file robinel__photo_story_3_wvp2_sample.wmv to ftp://streams.videolan.org/incoming . In testing this file and another in VLC 0.9.2, I noticed that the lengths of both files reported by VLC are 5 seconds longer than reported by Windows Explorer (...

geoffrey2008, you might find this helpful: Tip: setting brightness for video overlay on graphics cards I used this and it seems to be OK now. Great! There is a way to save it in VLC without adjusting your video card. I discovered this issue as well, and fumbled on how to set it, and save it in VLC....

Please use Code tags when posting LOOOONG logs. Done. When you open WMV file, and hit pause immediately and wait few seconds and hit play, does it help? No, that doesn't help. When I resume playback, there is still the same amount of missing picture. With just one file in the playlist, using the pr...

geoffrey2008, you might find this helpful:
Tip: setting brightness for video overlay on graphics cards

Tip: setting brightness for video overlay on graphics cards If you find that video -- whether played from a DVD or a file -- is consistently too bright or too dark on your PC, you may benefit from my experience. For the several years I've had my current PC, I've contended with nearly all video bein...

0.9.2 blanks first 1 - 2 seconds of WMV files; sound is okay VLC versions: 0.9.2 Grishenko, 0.8.6i Janus (wxVidgets interface) VLC consistently blanks the picture of certain WMV video files for the first one to two seconds, while playing the audio okay from the start. After the initial few seconds,...

Here would be better. Okay, here is the message set, with verbosity = 2: main info: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. qt4 debug: MRL passed to the Sout: C:\vlc_test\panorama.wmv qt4 debug: Profile Used: mpeg2 qt4 debug: Sout mrl :sout=#transcode{vcodec...

j-b, thanks for the pointer to the Messages dialog. To save space in this thread, I uploaded the long list of messages to ftp://streams.videolan.org/incoming in the file robinel_tanscoding_error__could_not_open_the_encoder__messages_verbosity_2.txt ( sic : yes, "transcoding" is misspelled ...

j-b, the title of this threat is the only message I see.

In addition, I went to Preferences > Advanced > Logging and
set a Log filename, but that file remains empty.

Is there somewhere else to look for additional messages?

error: "Streaming / Transcoding failed: VLC could not open the encoder" VLC version: 0.9.2 Grishenko I have several WMV video files (FourCC: WVP2) created by Microsoft Photo Story 3. VLC can play them. I want to use VLC to transcode them to MPEG-2 format for use in a DVD. I tried this: Med...

DVD menu button bug, unselected ones not visible, DVDStyler I use DVDStyler (version 1.6.2, the latest from http://www.dvdstyler.de) to author DVDs. It permits two types of buttons. The first type is pre-defined graphical buttons. The second is buttons made from text I type in. I believe DVDStyler ...