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DVDs wont play in Win 8
Posted: 26 Jan 2014 09:51
by emmjay
Hi,
I'm not a "techy" so what I'm posting here may be silly, but its infuriating the hell out of me.
I've just upgraded to Windows 8 ( from Win 7) now that was a mistake in itself!! ( but thats another story).
I've always used VLC successfully in the past, but I just cant get it to play any DVDs at all now I just get the following error message.
Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "G:".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///G:\'. Check the log for details.
Havent a clue what that means & I dont know where to look for the log.
I'm running a 64 bit machine & have a DVD RW & a Blue Ray RW, both with up to date drivers & neither will play DVDs. I'm running VLC 2.1.2 64 bit.
Any help would be appreciated.
Re: DVDs wont play in Win 8
Posted: 27 Jan 2014 05:08
by devonwoods
I just uninstalled 2.1.2 and downloaded/installed 2.1.1 and I am back up and running on Windows 8.1 64-bit. Here's the link to download 2.1.1 again for your 64-bit OS
http://download.videolan.org/videolan/v ... -win64.exe.
Re: DVDs wont play in Win 8
Posted: 27 Jan 2014 07:34
by emmjay
Yep thanks thats sorted it for me too.
Re: DVDs wont play in Win 8
Posted: 28 Jan 2014 00:02
by eddie2102
I have same issue. Just invested in new laptop win 8.1 . Downloaded VLC 2.1.2 but get following error message when opening DVD.
Blu-ray error:
Path doesn't appear to be a Blu-ray
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'bluray:///E:/'. Check the log for details
The Disc is certainly a BluRay.
Read somewhere that this issue is related to version 2.1.2 for 64 bit os and it was recommended to uninstall 2.1.2 and install 2.1.1. I attempted this, I found 2.1.1 download, download says 2.1.1 however about states 2.1.2.
So would like to know where I can download v 2.1.1 if this is a true fix and when 2.1.2 is likely to be fixed
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Re: DVDs wont play in Win 8
Posted: 28 Jan 2014 00:07
by eddie2102
Thanks to earlier post have now downloaded 2.1.1 however problem still exists
Re: DVDs wont play in Win 8
Posted: 29 Jan 2014 00:22
by coldreactive
Here's the full messages log for 2.1.2 for those having trouble with DVD Playback:
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main debug: adding item `dvd:///E:/' ( dvd:///E:/ )
qt4 debug: Adding a new MRL to recent ones: dvd:///E:/
main debug: processing request item: dvd:///E:/, node: null, skip: 0
main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist
main debug: rebuild done - 1 items, index 0
main debug: starting playback of the new playlist item
main debug: resyncing on dvd:///E:/
main debug: dvd:///E:/ is at 0
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'dvd:///E:/'
main debug: meta ok for (null), need to fetch art
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'C:\Users\Ian\AppData\Local\Temp'
main debug: `dvd:///E:/' gives access `dvd' demux `' path `/E:/'
main debug: creating demux: access='dvd' demux='' location='/E:/' file='E:\'
main debug: looking for access_demux module matching "dvd": 12 candidates
main debug: looking for meta fetcher module matching "any": 1 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Ian\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher\tvrage.luac
main debug: using meta fetcher module "lua"
main debug: removing module "lua"
main debug: searching art for dvd:///E:/
main debug: looking for art finder module matching "any": 2 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Ian\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\art
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac
dvdnav warning: cannot open DVD (E:)
main debug: no art finder modules matched
main debug: art not found for dvd:///E:/
qt4 debug: IM: Setting an input
dvdread error: DVDRead cannot open source: E:
main debug: no access_demux modules matched
main debug: creating access 'dvd' location='/E:/', path='E:\'
main debug: looking for access module matching "dvd": 20 candidates
main debug: no access modules matched
main error: open of `dvd:///E:/' failed
main debug: dead input
main debug: changing item without a request (current 0/1)
main debug: nothing to play
qt4 debug: IM: Deleting the input
Re: DVDs wont play in Win 8
Posted: 14 Feb 2014 16:47
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Try 2.1.3