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My desktop runs on Windows 7. I've never had this happen before but yesterday I put an older DVD I just bought in the drive to play and a green screen came up, flickering, over the main screen with Play, Extras, Subtitles etc. I had a message to get the VLC upgrade which I did but it's still happen...

For several years now I have had to view a flashing green screen when trying to view some videos. I see it discussed in the forum with many potential fixes some of which I have tried. After all this time I think the devs need to get this fixed. Can someone please explain to me what's going on.

Try this workaround:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=485671#p485671

didn't work for me and I even updated.

VLC 3.0.7.1 is out, please try it.

Didn't work for me.

Hi, it will be quickly fixed by a small update, no need to disable hardware decoding. Thanks! I'll believe that when I see it. This flickering green playback has been happening to me for years off & on and nobody cares enough to fix it so far. It seems to me the devs lost interest long ago.

Lately, during DVD playback I see an intermittent flickering green screen. It comes & goes seemingly at random and covers the whole screen although the playback is still visible. These are store bought & rented disks and also .isos of backups made from them. I have the latest VLC version and...

Hello, could you provide a sample of an ISO causing a crash? open an issue on https://trac.videolan.org you can upload the sample on https://streams.videolan.org/upload/ Could you provides some logs of the application? (tools -> messages , set verbosity to 2 before playing the media) The upload sit...

Hello, can you try this version ? https://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/vlc-3.0.2-20180404-0335/vlc-3.0.2-20180404-0335-win32.exe No joy. Just a crash and error message. BTW, I've since come across several other disks created in the same way displaying the same symptoms. These disks were origi...

Hello,

Could you try with the latest 3.0.2 nightly
You can download it at: https://nightlies.videolan.org/

I tried to do as you ask but there are so many downloadable files with that number and with the same date that I don't know which to use. Could you clarify?

I have one .iso file on SSD and on disk that VLC won't play. The disk plays fine on my stand alone player. What's going on?

I have a .iso file both on disk & on my SSD and neither will play in any of my computer disk players while the disk plays fine in my set top DVD player. What's going on?

I think I have found a work around if not a solution. DVDFab Decrypter has a feature called "path player" which, I believe handles some form of encryption not always present so it can be toggles on/off. I've been running the program with path player enabled so that I could use the features...

I followed your instructions again and this time got a message the forum won't allow me to post because it contains more than 4 URLs. Use pastebin or similar service in that case. Sorry but I've been unable to recreate the message screen I mentioned without freezing the computer. Does the other mes...

Tools -> Messages... (set Verbosity to 2) before using Media -> Open Disc... and paste messages here. Here's another message I got after following your directions again: main debug: adding item `dvd://D' ( dvd://D:\ ) main debug: dying input qt4 debug: Adding a new MRL to recent ones: dvd://D:\

Tools -> Messages... (set Verbosity to 2) before using Media -> Open Disc... and paste messages here.

I followed your instructions again and this time got a message the forum won't allow me to post because it contains more than 4 URLs.

[quote="VLC_help"]Tools -> Messages... (set Verbosity to 2) before using Media -> Open Disc... and paste messages here.[/quote

Thee is no message to post, however I was able to play one disk but not another. I now have a clue as to what's wrong. I'll post the outcome.

When I try to launch a DVD I've backed up using DVDFab Decrypter nothing happens. Absolutely nothing. System components: Phenom II 550- BE@3.1ghz, 4GB DDR3, AMD 5750GPU, WD 500GB Black HDD, Samsung DVD burners, ASUS MB. No conflicts that I can find. WMP works OK.

If you have AnyDVD or DVDfab decrypter installed, try to update those. Or any CD/DVD virtual drive (like daemon tools or alcohol).

I'm already running the current version of DVDFab Decrypter, v6.0.4.0. I don't have "any DVD".

Driver or hardware problem. Media Players cannot freeze or crash systems, broken hardware or bad drivers can.

How would you suggest I proceed? My hardware seems to be functioning OK so how would I locate the offending driver(s)?

Every time I try to open a DVD XP PRO freezes completely requiring a restart. The same problem existed with WMP until I updated to v11 so I just updated VLC but no joy. Help please.