DVD playback stops

[mikeandlucyg]

Hi,
First feel that I must start the post with thanks to all who work on VLC it's great.
Now on to my issue...
Every single DVD I play stops at some point during playback. (This has happened to at least the last 20 DVDs, some I own, some hired, some brand new with no visible scratches, no copies and all genuine original DVDs)
Every DVD stops at a different place. But for each DVD it's consistently the same place that it stops. i.e. If I restart the DVD and play from the beginning or if I restart and navigate to just before the point, ... it will always stop at exactly the same point, the only way past it is to navigate past the point where it stops and play from there.

I'm running windows vista enterprise sp1.
Dell precision M90 laptop (Video card: "Nvidia quadro FX 2500M", DVD drive: "philips CDRW/DVD SCB5265 ATA device")
I'm now running VLC 0.9.8a
Used to have same issue on an older version of VLC (Sorry can't remember that version no)

Also just took a DVD that stopped on my machine and tried it on someone else's machine whi runs Windows XP (tried both using VLC and not VLC) and it worked fine. So it's definately not the DVDs.

Looks like some combination of my computer or maybe Vista and VLC. (I assume that it's not vista otherwise everyone with vista would have posted a similar thing because every single DVD i try to play has the same issue)

Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Mike G

This is copied from the messages windows when a stop occurs:

dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_NOP
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_CELL_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: - cellN=7
dvdnav debug: - pgN=7
dvdnav debug: - cell_length=50792400
dvdnav debug: - pg_length=50792400
dvdnav debug: - pgc_length=659610000
dvdnav debug: - cell_start=232491600
dvdnav debug: - pg_start=232491600
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_SPU_CLUT_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_SPU_STREAM_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: - physical_wide=128
dvdnav debug: - physical_letterbox=128
dvdnav debug: - physical_pan_scan=128
dvdnav debug: buttonUpdate not done b=1 t=3
dvdnav debug: DVDNAV_AUDIO_STREAM_CHANGE
dvdnav debug: - physical=0
dvdnav warning: cannot get next block (Expected NAV packet but none found.)
main debug: finished input
main debug: dying input
qt4 debug: Updating the stream status: 8
main debug: thread ended
main debug: thread times: real 1m3.265000s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s
main debug: thread 5928 joined (dvdnav.c:367)
main debug: removing module "libmpeg2"
main debug: thread ended
main debug: thread times: real 1m0.045000s, kernel 0m0.031200s, user 0m4.570829s
main debug: thread 6232 joined (input/decoder.c:248)
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `mpgv', 125 PES in FIFO
main debug: dying input
main debug: removing module "i420_yuy2_sse2"
direct3d debug: Direct3D scene released successfully
direct3d debug: 1 Direct3D pictures released.
main debug: thread ended
main debug: thread times: real 1m0.008000s, kernel 0m0.280801s, user 0m1.497609s
main debug: thread 6044 joined (video_output/video_output.c:536)
direct3d debug: DirectXEventThread terminating
direct3d debug: DirectXCloseWindow
direct3d debug: WinProc WM_DESTROY
qt4 debug: Qt FS: Detaching Vout
qt4 debug: Qt: Changing Fullscreen Mode
main debug: removing module "qt4"
main debug: thread ended
qt4 debug: Video is not needed anymore
main debug: thread times: real 1m0.062000s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
main debug: thread 5152 joined (direct3d.c:292)
main debug: removing module "direct3d"
main debug: removing module "blend"
main debug: thread times: real 0m0.001000s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s
main debug: thread 6184 joined (freetype.c:511)
main debug: removing module "freetype"
main debug: removing module "a52"
main debug: thread ended
main debug: thread times: real 1m0.041000s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.218401s
main debug: thread 6320 joined (input/decoder.c:248)
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `a52 ', 0 PES in FIFO
main debug: removing module "a52tofloat32"
main debug: removing module "bandlimited_resampler"
aout_directx debug: closing audio device
aout_directx debug: DirectSoundThread exiting
main debug: thread ended
main debug: thread times: real 1m0.052000s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s
main debug: thread 6112 joined (directx.c:664)
main debug: dying input
main debug: removing module "aout_directx"
main debug: removing module "converter_float"
main debug: removing module "float32_mixer"
main debug: looking for decoder module: 34 candidates
main debug: using decoder module "a52"
main debug: TIMER module_Need() : 0.000 ms - Total 0.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 0.000 ms)
main debug: thread 6448 (decoder) created at priority 2 (input/decoder.c:217)
main debug: thread started
main debug: removing module "a52"
main debug: thread ended
main debug: thread times: real 0m0.000000s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s
main debug: thread 6448 joined (input/decoder.c:248)
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `a52 ', 1 PES in FIFO
main debug: looking for decoder module: 34 candidates
main debug: using decoder module "a52"
main debug: TIMER module_Need() : 0.000 ms - Total 0.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 0.000 ms)
main debug: thread 6512 (decoder) created at priority 2 (input/decoder.c:217)
main debug: thread started
main debug: removing module "a52"
main debug: thread ended
main debug: thread times: real 0m0.000000s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s
main debug: thread 6512 joined (input/decoder.c:248)
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `a52 ', 1 PES in FIFO
main debug: looking for decoder module: 34 candidates
main debug: using decoder module "a52"
main debug: TIMER module_Need() : 0.000 ms - Total 0.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 0.000 ms)
main debug: thread 6376 (decoder) created at priority 2 (input/decoder.c:217)
main debug: thread started
main debug: removing module "a52"
main debug: thread ended
main debug: thread times: real 0m0.001000s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s
main debug: thread 6376 joined (input/decoder.c:248)
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `a52 ', 1 PES in FIFO
main debug: Program doesn't contain anymore ES
main debug: removing module "dvdnav"
main debug: thread ended
main debug: dead input
main debug: thread times: real 1m4.225000s, kernel 0m0.124800s, user 0m0.109200s
main debug: thread 5992 joined (playlist/engine.c:244)
main debug: TIMER input launching for 'dvd://E:\' : 865.000 ms - Total 865.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 865.000 ms)
main debug: starting new item
main debug: changing item without a request (current 0/1)
main debug: nothing to play

[VLC_help]

dvdnav warning: cannot get next block (Expected NAV packet but none found.)

You get same error if you rip the movie to hard drive and play it from there using VLC?

[mikeandlucyg]

Hi Sorry, I wan't able to rip any DVD to disk. I tried following instructions found elsewhere in this forum but just goes round in a loop forever and never finishes. Any other things I can try?

[mikeandlucyg]

Hmmm.
Just updated the firmware for my DVD player....
The last DVD I played doesn't stop at the place it did before.
It could be fixed.
I'll post again if it isn't fixed otherwise assume all is OK.

[runbei]

Four years later, same behavior still occurs in VLC 2.0.7 64-bit, 2.0.1 32-bit, and 1.0.5 32-bit. Surely it isn't a hardware issue. I've found no mention of a solution.