video distorted and sound jumps with dvds

[fredted40x]

Hi ,

when i try and play dvd's with vlc media player the video is not watchable and the sound jumps it looks like this



does anyone know whats going on?

Thanks

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Only for DVDs ?

[VLC_help]

And you use 0.9.6? And you have tried No menus option?

[fredted40x]

hi, sorry for the long delay, i installed vlc and then tried playing and it did that, but after i restarted the computer it played properly, so its all sorted now, i just needed to restart the computer after i installed

[Dasilva07]

I’m having the very same problem but mine didn’t fix after a restart. I used to use a much older version and that work perfectly but recently I had to format my computer so i downloaded the most recent version.

The distortion only happens on DVD's, I just start the DVD using VLC, which then takes about 1 minuet to load, i then get a corrupt image like u see in the screen shot above on the title screen of the DVD. If i click play, VLC will just crash, its happened on 2 DVD's and on a third it didn’t even show an image it played the title music but no image and then just crashed.

The only thing I can think of is that I didn’t install some codec’s of some sort. Iv uninstalled re installed VLC many times now iv updated my graphics drivers hoping that might be the issue (gforce 8800 GTS), I tried installing K-lite mega codec pack and still nothing. I’m just really not sure what to do as other media formats work fine. The only other thing is that my PC I noticed is set to region one and I was trying to play region 2 DVD's but I was slightly reluctant to change that under the assumption that VLC was a multi regional player.

I have fiddled around with the basic option from the dropdown visual menu but nothing seemed to make a difference

Any help on the subject would be much appreciated

[VLC_help]

VLC cannot use DirectShow or VfW codecs. So installing codec packs don't matter. If you use VLC snapshot feature, can you see the issue in those snapshots?

[Dasilva07]

I have just tested the snapshot function and yes the problem still persists in the snapshot, much like the image that is in the thread.

[VLC_help]

Then the decoding doesn't work correctly. Does the no menus option help at all?

[folly]

I'd just like to pop in and say, I'm having the same issue. Using no menus doesn't seem to help. The playback only went bad after installing a new version after a reformat.

[VLC_help]

And it only bothers DVD playback? So if you copy the content to hard drive and play it from there it works OK?

[folly]

hard drive content plays fine, its only when video is being played from the disk drive that any issues occur

[giantsguy46]

I was having the same problems with SOME region 2 dvd's (I have a region 1 player). Try replacing "D:\" when you go to play the disc with "D:\VIDEO_TS". I'm not sure why, but it works now...at least for region 1 and 2's.

Hope it helps!

[gambit37]

Hi, I was having the same problem and found this thread. I tried the VIDEO_TS solution described above, and it works!
Just thought I'd let you know, and thanks for the solution

[sethn]

I also had to reinstall my computer and downloaded the new versions. I was having all the same problems and tried many different menu options. The TS_VIDEO solution only worked sometimes (and not on the dvd i wanted to watch at the moment). The only way I could make it work is to install an old version (http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... .6i/win32/). Now, it works perfectly again.

[thejudge]

Had same problems with 'The Green Mile' region 1 dvd, inserting VIDEO_TS like mentioned above fixed it. Player version 9.8a. What's the difference between selecting E:\VIDEO_TS manually and just leaving it at the DVD drive letter? Can't see any link between autodetecting the right directory and having problems with encoding the data stream....

[VLC_help]

Does the movie have some other stuff inside the root folder of that DVD? Like some autorun.exe files?

[AtomicWillow]

I get the same thing too. I have vista x64 and the only way I have found of solving it is to go back to 0.8.6i