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If the DVD image is copied to a Apple_HFS volume then VLC's "Open Disc" seems to work correctly.

It's not just ZFS however: "Open Disc" also fails on a DVD image over a network (SMB, to a Samba server on FreeBSD).

The path is to the DVD image /Volumes/t19/foo. t19 is a ZFS volume.

If I copy a DVD to the hard disk I can't use the "Open Disc" command to play that as I could in previous versions of VLC. After command Open Disc I get the "Open Source" dialogue box. I then click "Open VIDEO_TS folder" and go to the local DVD copy. But no matter what I...

$ cp ~/Library/Preferences/VLC/vlcrc ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlcrc

Start VLC
Select File menu -> Open Disc
Click the VIDEO_TS Folder button

At this point I should be able to type in a pathname or click the "Browse" button. But the path field is disabled and the Browse button is grayed out.

It would probably help the developers quite a bit to say what kinds of files or media freeze, and what version(s) of VLC were used. There are two other questions I think would be useful to answer: 1. If you just let it play from the beginning without doing anything in VLC, does it freeze? In my case...

I am seeing this also with VLC 0.9.8 on Mac OSX 10.5.5. The source material is ripped DVDs. If I just play the movie there is no freeze. But if I skip (shift-right) or use the keys for next/prev chapter then on some movies it might do the video-freezes-audio-plays-on thing. Other movies seem to neve...