movie "The Proposal" plays chapters in wrong order

[c0d3r]

I borrowed the movie "The Proposal" from Netflix. I wanted to play it on my desktop computer. The only DVD playing program I have on that computer is the VLC Media Player. VLC usually works fine for me. But, for this movie, I put in the disc as usual, started vlc.exe, used File -> Open Disc, hit "Play", and watched some previews at the start of the disc. After the previews the DVD's main disc menu appeared.

I clicked the "Play movie" link at the DVD's disc menu and was greeted by the usual FBI anti-piracy warning (so sorry, can't provide an image of the DVD for debugging, can I?). The warning never disappeared. I restarted VLC. This time, when the previews started, I right-clicked the video window and chose Playback -> Disc Menu to skip the previews. Again, the warning appeared and never disappeared.

I was able to right-click in the video window and choose Playback -> Title 1 to get to the start of the movie. After the first scene, it jumped to a later scene, then after that scene, it jumped to scene 2, then to the last scene, then it repeated the last scene. Obviously, I was dissatisfied.

I took the movie out and played it in another computer with a commercial program.

I am using VLC 0.9.9 Grishenko compiled by jb at sasmira.jbkempf.com with gcc version 4.2.1-sjlj (mingw32-2) from Git commit f013825670 using the Qt4 Interface.
My OS is Windows XP Pro 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090804-1435 : Service Pack 3)
My video (Intel north bridge, 945GC Express Chipset) and sound (Realtek ALC662 codec) hardware are those built into the motherboard: Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2C.
My DVD player hardware is the Sony Blu-ray burner BDRW BWU-200S.
For further questions, email me at servantcoder at gmail.com.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The chapters are not always in orders in DVDs. There is not much we can do about that.

Unfortunately, the DVD specification is confidential, so VLC, or more precisely, libdvdnav had to reverse engineer it. Hence there are some problems with some DVDs. You can try to open the DVD without menus, but that's about it.