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I'm sure they're aware of the problem!

Ugh! Region coding! Ugh! Glad that the 8.61 version defeats that issue.

Thank you JAE! I just stumbled upon your post, after having the same exact problems with the newest VLC. Now everything's fine!

Ditto! Thanks! JAE!

I was using version 0.9.8a of the VLC media player. I unistalled that and installed version 0.8.6i of the VLC media player - and now all DVDs I've tried have played fine (region 1, region 2, all-regions PAL; all legal DVDs), no adjustments needed, and no changing my drive region! :) I'll try that. ...

Welcome to the forums :). Well as previously discussed in the topic it may be that your drive is hardware-locked. What are VLC's messages when you playback a DVD? Go to "Tools >> Messages...", set the "Verbosity Level" to 2, and then open a DVD-Video. Copy and paste the messages...

This is my post here at the forum. Please be kind. I'm not very tech savy, but here's the problem. I've used VLC media players for years on PCs and on laptops and ALWAYS been able to play a DVD (PAL or NSTC) from any region without difficulties. I just bought a Sony VAIO notebook with Vista software...