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Hi all,

I have Windows Vista Home Premiun Edition, latest version of VLC installed, and absolutely no other codes in my system. More than that, my system has never had any codec installed in it, so I assume it's clean because it doesn't have any codec leftovers.

My problem is as follows.Some dvd's (but I cannot find any pattern) simply wonlt play. Either the buttons in the menu cannot be pressed (so I cannot press "Play") the dunction "Next: doesn't work either, or the film begins playing but freezes after a couple of seconds and remains like that. If I start all over again, it happens the same.

These DVD;s that I have problems with, work with Media Player.


This whole problem occurs in about 10% of all dvd's I watch.


Thank you for your support.

If you have no other codecs installed, how it is possible that Windows Media Player plays DVD?

They play with that media center embedded in Windows.

Vista Ultimate and Home Premium have build-in DVD decoding. Are those problematic discs how new? If they are, I am thinking that added copy protection stuff is causing issues to VLC. And VLC can't use DirectShow or VfW codecs. So installing or uninstalling codecs doesn't matter to VLC.

This happens both with physical DVD's, as well as ISO images, and your're right, it happens to new discs. I've done experiments.