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Hi, as the title says, my Vlc hangs with Fbi-Warning.
Happens when I play VideoTs or Dvd.
Version 0.9.8a - Vista64
The same happened with earlier versions and also on my laptop with XP.

Any suggestions?
Thanks

Try no dvd menus.

Try no dvd menus.

I have tried that.
The only way to access the film is to open each Vob-file alone but this is pretty annoying.
I have that problem only with some films. And sometimes it just takes 1/2 minute and the film starts.
It looks like this:


And nothing seems to help.

Am I the only one with this problem?

same thing happens to me....what i do is go to the scene selection screen and click the 2nd chapter and then just move the time back to 0:00:00 so it essentially skips the fbi warnings

Does it help if you rip the movie to hard drive?

Does it help if you rip the movie to hard drive?

No!

same thing happens to me....what i do is go to the scene selection screen and click the 2nd chapter and then just move the time back to 0:00:00 so it essentially skips the fbi warnings

I can't even access the scene-selection.

This has been a nagging problem the last months or so that has sortof grown in nuisance...
Grande Elan, thou aren't alone...

Basically, for me at least, this mostly applies to newer dvd's. And of those new dvd's it's always those that begin with a language-selection-menu. I select a language, the "FBI warning" (or any of it's many equivalents) displays and VLC stops responding. VLC won't let me skip this with the navigation-functions in the program (they are always greyed out). And if I try playing the DVD without menus it hangs and gives a standard non-descript error message: I've been working around this problem by simply using other players as Cyberlink PowerDVD and Media Player Classic. But since both of them lacks several of the features I love in VLC like easy-cropping (several of my DVD's are un-matted fullscreen editions that just needs a simple crop to get the right Aspect Ratio). And the much more leaner workflow of VLC is something I rather not abandon if I can help it.

Now, we're at least 3 that has experienced this problem... is there a solution?

If it helps, I'm sitting on an AMD64 XP SP3 machine with .NET installed and VLC 0.9.8a (the problem existed at least 6 months ago and I have been keeping up with the software-updates of VLC). There's nothing wrong with the discs, they play just fine in any other player than VLC

EDIT: The "log" that the errormessage refers to... or watchamacallit the "messages" option under "tools" provides this when I try the "no menu" option:
And when I try to play it "with" menu... it's just blank.

I've also seen the problem on the 1.0.0 nightlies on osx also I've tried playing from an unencrypted ISO and the problem persisted.

Same problem with Silly Simphonies unencrypted ISO my friend.
On the other hand VLC doesn't show first menu screen useful to change language at startup anymore.

dvdsimple is broken in 0.9.8a, so it doesn't work. And some newer movies use added copy protection stuff and VLC cannot play those movies correctly. Only option with those movies is to rip them to hard drive using tools like AnyDVD or DVDfab decrypter and then play them with VLC.

As an update on my status on this... I've managed to get most dvd's to work now... it's a bit of a workaround...

Basically I have three installed DVD-players, two IDE and one SATA. And when they act up when playing discs, I just have to try another of the drives. One usually works fine. The obvious deduction would be that it's a region-code thing. But it's too random for that. One R2 disc may work in the drive 1, while another may only work in drive 3. And the third disc, a R1, only works in drive 2 and 1... It's just not predictable. But it sortof works I guess...

It helps if you remove %appdata%\dvdcss folder?