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Hello,
this is my first post, so i'll try to do my best but excuse me in advance....

I bought a DVD of "Frozen" (fr version) and everytime i try to read it on a PC i get this error after ~40s of the film and the video stops :


I tried on several computers :
- a vista desktop
- a W7 laptop (screenshot)
- a W8 laptop
- a W8.1 desktop

all drivers and VLC were up to date i tried GPU accel on and off on each : same result each time.

Note that my DVD player could read it fine on my TV, and its about four or five years old if that helps.

If you need any firther info tell me, i'll do my best to be helpful.

I am having this exact same issue.

I have a BRAND NEW PC Dell i7 with Win8.1

Any time I play a video with MKV encoding at 720p it comes up with the Run Time error, or about 40-50s into playing it just quits with the last image on the screen.

I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling etc and there is no difference.

My old computer is Win Vista SP2 and I have never had an issue playing anything on it. So I am rather disappointed this isn't working correctly on 8.1

So, it seems that this is not just me....
I hope that somebody can solve this.

For further testing, this happens with vlc 2.1.3 as well as with todays nightly build.

It seems to be certain menus that crashes VLC.
A solution that worked for me, with the C++ runtime error was:
1. Start VLC
2. ctrl + d (open media dialog, shows)
3. mark: no disk menus
4. push [play] (when you selected your dvd drive)

My setup:
VLC 2.1.3
DVD region 2
Film: Tangled