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After many years of using VLC to play, convert, etc., this is first time this has happened. I rented 'Crown Vic' from Redbox and it would NOT play on VLC. I tried it on both; my i7 & AMDx4 pc’s, both are Win10, vers. 3.0.8 vlc. However, It DID play ok on my Panasonic (BD30) dvd player. Then using IdealDvd Copy, I created a 'Movie-only' version, which removes menus, previews, etc. The movie-only version played fine (incl sub/cc’s) on vlc. I then used Handbrake to create a 450mb mp4 from the movie-only version, including Subs/cc's and it played fine.
Could it just be a flaky dvd (ie. TS.IFO)? But why would it play fine on my Panasonic and not VLC?

On the dvd (or ‘entire disc’ (TS) folder), VLC never finds the menu. Either it just sits with a grey screen or a yellow bar continuously floats back & forth at bottom and it just hangs. I ultimately have to KILL the process.

I captured logs by:
• Open: Tools -> Messages.
• Set Verbosity to 2
• Start playback to reproduce issue

These are the msgs:

main debug: processing request item: dvd:///E:/dvd%20movie%20library/CROWN%20VIC, node: Playlist, skip: 0
main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist
main debug: rebuild done - 1 items, index 0
main debug: starting playback of new item
main debug: resyncing on dvd:///E:/dvd%20movie%20library/CROWN%20VIC
main debug: dvd:///E:/dvd%20movie%20library/CROWN%20VIC is at 0
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'dvd:///E:/dvd%20movie%20library/CROWN%20VIC'
main debug: requesting art for new input thread
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB
main debug: using timeshift path: C:\Users\myklj\AppData\Local\Temp
main debug: `dvd:///E:/dvd%20movie%20library/CROWN%20VIC' gives access `dvd' demux `any' path `/E:/dvd%20movie%20library/CROWN%20VIC'
main debug: creating demux: access='dvd' demux='any' location='/E:/dvd%20movie%20library/CROWN%20VIC' file='E:\dvd movie library\CROWN VIC'
main debug: looking for access_demux module matching "dvd": 15 candidates
main debug: looking for meta fetcher module matching "any": 1 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\myklj\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher
main debug: no meta fetcher modules matched
main debug: looking for art finder module matching "any": 2 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\myklj\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: skipping script (unmatched scope) 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: skipping script (unmatched scope) 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: skipping script (unmatched scope) 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
lua debug: skipping script (unmatched scope) C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac
main debug: no art finder modules matched
main debug: looking for meta fetcher module matching "any": 1 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\myklj\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher
main debug: no meta fetcher modules matched
main debug: looking for art finder module matching "any": 2 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\myklj\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
main debug: no art finder modules matched
qt debug: IM: Setting an input
dvdnav debug: trying to go to dvd menu

I have this same exact problem! I've searched everywhere for some kind of solution and, though I found several, none of them worked! Please, I just want to watch The Hunger Games My disc is a commercial, unaltered Blu-Ray but I've tried both DVD and Blu-Ray settings; eventually the process kills itself and says:

Your input can't be opeYour input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///E:/'. Check the log for details.

then ejects the disc. It'll sit there and load (the yellow bar pinging back and forth at the bottom of the player interface) forever and ever before killing itself and ejecting the disc. I literally have no clue why it won't play; everything's up to date, nothing's been changed. It just. Won't play.