VLC and video recorder DVD formats

[sdoradus]

Hello, there
Can I draw attention to what I think is a serious problem with versions of VLC later than about v8.2? This really ought to be fixed before the v1.0 release, because otherwise VLC is not feature-complete.

I'm a retired Engineer now trying to teach myself Python and C, and keep up to date with my Cisco certification. As it happens, I once spoke fluent French (and Spanish), in which I hold a post-graduate degree from a decade or two back, so if need be I could post in that language. I'm aware that VLC started out life as a French project, and for all I know it still is.

I've found that while VLC used to play DVDs from my video recorder quite happily, it no longer does. The recorder is a Philips DVR-615. The DVDs in question play quite happily in a stand-alone DVD player like a Pioneer DVD-343. Commercial utilities like PowerDVD and WinDVD also have no trouble coping, which means they have as far as I can tell a quite important advantage over VLC. The problem for VLC seems to be that the root menu (which contains thumbnails of the sessions recorded) confuses it.

The visible directories are a little different: there is a VIDEO-RM folder as well as the usual VIDEO-TS, but no AUDIO-TS. I could send a copy of a DVD with the odd structure if it would help, but it's been my experience to date that VLC is confused by all the DVD-based video recorders I've tried (only three so far, however).

Regards, TC

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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