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can't play dvds

Postby megaman951 » 20 Jun 2013 01:41

I'm using VLC X64 and some of my DVDs won't work. I tried opening up the disc directly or thru the VIDEO_TS folder. I get the following error:

File reading failed:
VLC could not read the file (Bad file descriptor).

this only happens with dvds I purchased recently

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Re: can't play dvds

Postby Lotesdelere » 20 Jun 2013 09:30

Do the same DVDs work with an x86 build of VLC ?

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Re: can't play dvds

Postby megaman951 » 21 Jun 2013 00:14

no they don't work on the x86 version either. same thing happens. the dvd drive just keeps searching....and after a while I get that error message :(

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Re: can't play dvds

Postby Lotesdelere » 21 Jun 2013 10:23

Try this:
Tools -> Preferences -> Show settings: ALL
Input codecs -> Access modules -> DVD with menus
Untick the option "Start directly in menu".
Save the preferences then exit and restart VLC.


If it doesn't work, then I'm afraid your DVD is using a protection scheme that VLC can't deal with.

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Re: can't play dvds

Postby megaman951 » 21 Jun 2013 15:47

that still doesn't work.

But I found this player called "media player classic" that seems to works with these dvds. guess I'm gonna go with that for now...

thanks anyways

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Re: can't play dvds

Postby Lotesdelere » 22 Jun 2013 08:58

What are these DVDs ?

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Re: can't play dvds

Postby Testing123 » 23 Sep 2013 00:24

I am having this problem too with Mud. Can't get any windows player to play it.

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Re: can't play dvds

Postby Testing123 » 23 Sep 2013 00:32

I am having this problem too with Mud. Can't get any windows player to play it.

Actually really weird thing happened when I tried Windows Media Player classic like recommened above. I got a very badly damaged version of the movie Disconnect playing, when the DVD is clearly labled "Mud". I wonder if this is DRM or some bizarre DVD. I got the DVD from netflix, maybe there was some sort of malfunction with one of their DVD creators.


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