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Can't play DVD's
Posted: 31 Jan 2010 03:11
by Viper5
Whenever I pop in a DVD and my autorun comes up, selecting VLC as my player will only result in an error.
File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "dvd:D:\".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:D:\'. Check the log for details.
I have to manually go to the Video_TS folder, right click, and then select the play with VLC option which is highly annoying. Any way around this?
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 31 Jan 2010 15:49
by VLC_help
Your autoplay option is wrong. It should be something like dvd://D:\
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:55
by wraith65
Your autoplay option is wrong. It should be something like dvd://D:\
Hi.
I have the exact same problem, however, i see that you have posted a possible solution, but i have absolutely no idea where i can change my autoplay option as you mentioned. Where do i go about changing this to the correct syntax?
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 06 Feb 2010 14:32
by VLC_help
Edit it via Windows registry or Windows Explorer (Folder options and File types).
http://attachments.techguy.org/attachme ... ptions.jpg
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 06 Feb 2010 19:25
by wraith65
Hey. This seem to be on right track, but im on a vista computer, and the folder options shown in the pic doesnt seem to exist in the folder options on vista. Could you point me to the correct registry path?
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 07 Feb 2010 15:23
by VLC_help
DVD\shell\PlayWithVLC\command
and
VLC.DVDMovie\shell\Open\command
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 09 Feb 2010 18:01
by rubyred78291
heh, could you dumb that down some more please? im having the same problem but im not as computer savvy as the rest of you i guess...
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:57
by VLC_help
Open regedit (start -> run -> regedit)
Find the correct location (Edit -> Find... if the manual navigation is too hard)
and edit the value so it will look like vlc.exe" --started-from-file dvd://%1
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 10 Feb 2010 16:13
by ingy_dust
I made here a detailed explain. It's working for me now:
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 11 Feb 2010 09:05
by wraith65
I've checked those registry paths and they are already correct, yet the problem still persists. Any other thoughts?
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 11 Feb 2010 19:51
by VLC_help
wraith65: does it help if you remove %appdata%\vlc folder?
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 11 Feb 2010 20:04
by wraith65
Doesnt seem to work either.
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 12 Feb 2010 15:48
by ntix
Same problem here... I've tried those methods but doesn't work for me either.
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 12 Feb 2010 17:51
by VLC_help
So you still get
VLC could not open the file "dvd:D:\".
that error with VLC?
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 12 Feb 2010 18:58
by ntix
F: is my default CD/DVD ROM
Re: Can't play DVD's
Posted: 13 Feb 2010 18:15
by VLC_help
That is different problem. Open Tools -> Messages... (set Verbosity to 2) and open the movie via Media -> Open Disc...
