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I just got adventures of tintin dvd. I put it in my pc. It can play the main menu just fine. I can go into setup to enable subtitle. But when I select play, vlc quits the dvd and displays the orange cone. I tried it again and the same happens. I ripped the dvd to my hard drive and play the folder, but the result is still the same.

I ended up playing the vob files one by one, which worked fine.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

VLC 2.0.0 compiled by jb on vilacia (feb 17 2012 16:16:08)
OS: vista 32 bit, 2GB ram

I have seen such a problem with PowerDVD also.
This happens because the DVD is created from separate .vob files simply burned to the disk without the corresponding .ifo and .bup files which actually handle the playback of the DVD in a media player. (.vob files are just the .mpeg files with .vob extension.)
Of course, if your disk was original and not ripped, then the problem could be with the DVD, assuming you’ve tried it on other media player(s) and it didn’t work there too. Otherwise, VLC has the problem, if other DVDs too don’t play the way they should.
Also some DVD-creating software like Video Studio insert such a glitch on the DVD that refuses to play good on VLC though not on most DVD players.

I had the same problem, and I solved it by going to the scene-selection menu within the DVD's title screens and choosing Chapter 1. The movie played just fine. There seem to be about a hundred titles nested into the DVD, which might be confusing VLC; the real video track for the full movie seems to be at Title 22 (at least on my copy), which you can find manually using the Playback ->Navigation submenu. That said, I know very little about the inner workings of VLC and am a total noob. Hope this helps you view your movie, though.

VLC 1.1.12 on Ubuntu 11.10
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