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1. The auto playback function, which starts playing a disc when you put it in, doesn't always work. Sometimes after waiting a while I have to manually open a DVD I put in. This error is irregular; when trying with the same disc several times it sometimes starts on its own and sometimes not.

2. Sometimes when I jump around in a DVD movie by pressing on the time bar VLC crashes.

3. When trying to play any of the three Bourne films i noticed the menus were distorted. When you slide the cursor over an alternative in the menu it's supposed to turn orange, but in VLC 1.0.0-rc1 there's random red spots in the orange. Also when I opened the subtitles menu there were no visible text on the links, just the red-orange field (when you moved the cursor over the menu page) where the text ought to be. the menu worked but you had to guess which language you were choosing.

I've never experienced any of these errors in any previous versions of VLC I've tested.

Did it work in 0.9.9 ?

The two first bugs did for sure, but I'm not sure about the third one. Now that you mention it that problem may have been in 0.9.9 too. Was a while since I watched the Bourne movies last so I don't remember clearly.

I encountered something similar to the third bug when playing another DVD (Underworld: Evolution) last night: When I was in the root menu and clicked on either the Audio or Subtitle submenus the root menu would still be displayed, and it looked like nothing had happened, but when I moved the cursor around it seemed I was actually in the submenu I had clicked on but all the text was invisible and only the markers for which option the cursor was on were visible, much like the subtitle menus for the Bourne movies. I had to guess what option i was marking but the menu seemed to work.

I reinstalled VLC 0.9.9 and confirmed that the DVD menu problem does not exist there - in either of the four DVD's where 1.0.0-rc1 has problems. Both the color and text are all there and looks as it should.

Fill a bug.

Fill a bug.

What do you mean by that?

File a proper bug report at http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ though without a patch you have no warranty that the bug will ever be fixed.

Why do you even have this forum thread if I have to go to another website to report regressions in VLC 1.0.0-rc1?

Why do you even have this forum thread if I have to go to another website to report regressions in VLC 1.0.0-rc1?

The purpose of this forum is to have quick answer of what kind of problem you have. When we understand that the problem is a bug of vlc, we ask you to fill a bug report on http://trac.videolan.org/vlc because that the right place to keep information about bugs.

I don't have a clue how to do that! I just joined this forum a few days ago to try to share some bugs I stumbled across and hope the guys who actually know anything about programming and bug hunting would take it from there. I'm not just lazy or anything, i'm just a pretty basic computer user who appearently am in over my head.

If you want this done right I think it woulkd be best if you did this yourselves. I don't know anything more about these bugs than I've written in this thread.

Could someone please assure me your filling bugs on my reported problems OR tell me how to fill a bug. I like VLC and would like to help get these bugs fixed, but I'm kind of flying blind here.