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I’ve been trying to watch some of my region 1 dvds on VLC today, but I’ve been having some problems. I'd put the disc in & press play & nothing would happen. I know it can take a minute for VLC to start playing dvds, but you can usually hear the disk drive going when it does, & this was dead silent, not doing anything at all. At first I thought one of the disks had become damaged and unplayable, but when I tried the other 4 disks in that boxset only 1 of them would play. So I tried the original unplayable disk on my old computer, changing the computer to play region 1 dvds and using different dvd player software and the disk played ok, so I know there’s nothing wrong with the disk. I used check for updates & made sure I had the latest version of VLC, and I did. Finally I tried uninstalling VLC 2.0.1 and installed an earlier version, VLC 2.0.0, and that still had the same problem, so I tried an even older version, VLC 1.1.8 and the unplayable dvd’s are working again now.
So the new 2.0.1 version of VLC isn’t working with most of my region 1 dvds, but does work for some of them, don’t know why. The older 1.1.8 version is working just fine with all my region 1 dvds.

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback and then paste the full resulting log here or on Pastebin.com if it's too long.

This is for version 2.0.1

main debug: adding item `dvd:///E:/' ( dvd:///E:/ )
main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist
main debug: rebuild done - 1 items, index -1
main debug: processing request item: dvd:///E:/, node: null, skip: 0
main debug: resyncing on dvd:///E:/
main debug: dvd:///E:/ is at 0
main debug: starting playback of the new playlist item
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'dvd:///E:/'
qt4 debug: Adding a new MRL to recent ones: dvd:///E:/
main debug: meta ok for (null), need to fetch art
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'C:\Users\SUSANG~1\AppData\Local\Temp'
main debug: looking for meta fetcher module: 1 candidate
main debug: `dvd:///E:/' gives access `dvd' demux `' path `/E:/'
main debug: creating demux: access='dvd' demux='' location='/E:/' file='E:\'
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 2 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Susan Green\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher\tvrage.luac
main debug: using meta fetcher module "lua"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 4.317 ms - Total 4.317 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 4.317 ms)
main debug: removing module "lua"
main debug: searching art for dvd:///E:/
main debug: looking for art finder module: 2 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Susan Green\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\art
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac
main debug: no art finder module matching "any" could be loaded
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 8.308 ms - Total 8.308 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 8.308 ms)
main debug: art not found for dvd:///E:/
qt4 debug: IM: Setting an input

As requested, please paste the full resulting log.

Lotesdelere, I did what you said, I opened messages, set verbosity to 2, I pressed play, I listened while the dvd drive made noises for a couple of seconds & then went silent, just like it always does with this version, and nothing more happens. I waited more than 5 minutes. Then I opened messages again, clicked "save as" & saved the log. I opened the log, clicked "select all" I copied, and I pasted here - and you're still asking me for the full log?

main debug: adding item `dvd:///E:/' ( dvd:///E:/ )
main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist
main debug: rebuild done - 1 items, index -1
main debug: processing request item: dvd:///E:/, node: null, skip: 0
main debug: resyncing on dvd:///E:/
main debug: dvd:///E:/ is at 0
main debug: starting playback of the new playlist item
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'dvd:///E:/'
qt4 debug: Adding a new MRL to recent ones: dvd:///E:/
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'C:\Users\SUSANG~1\AppData\Local\Temp'
main debug: meta ok for (null), need to fetch art
main debug: `dvd:///E:/' gives access `dvd' demux `' path `/E:/'
main debug: creating demux: access='dvd' demux='' location='/E:/' file='E:\'
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 2 candidates
main debug: looking for meta fetcher module: 1 candidate
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Susan Green\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher\tvrage.luac
qt4 debug: IM: Setting an input
main debug: using meta fetcher module "lua"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 16.628 ms - Total 16.628 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 16.628 ms)
main debug: removing module "lua"
main debug: searching art for dvd:///E:/
main debug: looking for art finder module: 2 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Susan Green\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\art
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac
main debug: no art finder module matching "any" could be loaded
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 167.996 ms - Total 167.996 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 167.996 ms)
main debug: art not found for dvd:///E:/

That's it. That's all there is.

So basically some DVDs, but not all, are not playing with VLC 2.0.x while they are still playing fine with VLC 1.1.x ? You are talking about Region 1 DVDs but are you in Region 1 yourself ? Tell us the titles of the problematic DVDs.

You should create a ticket on the VLC Trac with a link to this thread.

no I'm region 2. The problem disks are 'Castle, the complete second season' disks 1,2,3 & 4, but disk 5 plays ok. & nothing wrong with the disks because, yeah, they all play fine with the older software.