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Posted: **24 Aug 2010 14:28**

Hi everyone!

I've been a VLC user for quite some time, and I have it as my favorite media player (I'm not a library guy), and so I got quite surprised when I found this problem.
I keep backups of my dvd's, since I don't like carrying them around in my backpack (all my pc's are laptops).
I recently bought a Toshiba Qosmio, and copied my backups into it, dragged one into VLC 1.1.3 and got the following:~´

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Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "C:\Users\Gonçalo\Videos\<DVD NAME>\".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd://C:\Users\Gonçalo\Videos\<DVD NAME>\'. Check the log for details.
Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "C:\Users\Gonçalo\Videos\<DVD NAME>\".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd://C:\Users\Gonçalo\Videos\<DVD NAME>\'. Check the log for details.

My machine is a Qosmio F60-118, general specs are:
Intel Core i7
nVidia GeForce GT330M 1.0GB
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

Thanks a lot in advance for any help you guys can offer

Posted: **24 Aug 2010 17:31**

Try to put it in a place without the "ç" like in Gonçalo

Posted: **25 Aug 2010 10:38**

Try to put it in a place without the "ç" like in Gonçalo

Well, that was unexpected, but it worked :O

So, VLC doesn't like special characters? Hmm... Any ideas on how to circumvent this, while keeping the videos on the same folder?

And thank you very very much for your solution

Posted: **25 Aug 2010 15:11**

It is libdvdread issue
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3816

Posted: **25 Aug 2010 22:30**

I see... Well, in that case, I'll just wait for a fix...

Thanks a lot, guys!

Posted: **31 Aug 2010 19:53**

This seems true in a lot of apps, unfortunately.

For instance, in Thunderbird, an attachment that has an "extended" character in its filename loses track of its filetype and shows up as gibberish at the recipient's end. I do a lot of score notation with Sibelius, and a lot of its functions just fall over when a filename has an extended character.

I don't know if it's a Windows libraries issue, or just app developers not thinking beyond the English language.

Posted: **01 Sep 2010 18:13**

or just app developers not thinking beyond the English language.

That mostly.

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