VLC crashes immediately when trying to play DVDs

[jumpfroggy]

I just upgraded to 1.0.1, and now I can't play DVDs. I tried dragging the DVD drive from explorer to VLC (which usually works), as well as dragging the root DVD folder from a ripped copy on my HD. In both cases, vlc immediately crashes (just disappears). Restarting vlc gives the "VLC Crash Reporting" popup.

I tried to enable logging to debug this problem, but have not been successful. In the VLC options (Advanced > Logging) I've set the Log filename to "C:\Program Files\VLC\log.txt" (where my VLC is installed) and the format to Text. However, the log file is never created. I've also tried starting vlc from the command line with "vlc -v2 --advanced --file-logging", but still nothing happens.

How can I get DVDs to play again? And how do I enable logging? Thanks.

[VLC_help]

Does removing of %appdata%\vlc folder help?

[blubberhoofd]

hi,

probably the same error here when trying to open any DVD (tried opening VIDEO_TS.IFO file and VIDEO_TS folder), but I get the following info in a window called "errors"

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Playback failure: DVDRead could not open the disc "Z:\Emma\dora dvd coll 16 (dutch)\VIDEO_TS\". Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd://Z:\Emma\dora dvd coll 16 (dutch)\VIDEO_TS\'. Check the log for details.

however no log file seems to be created.

@VLC_help

deleting the application data folder made no difference.

[VLC_help]

however no log file seems to be created.

Tools -> Messages... (set Verbosity to 2) before opening the disc.

[jumpfroggy]

Does removing of %appdata%\vlc folder help?

Didn't help me, VLC still crashes when loading a DVD.

however no log file seems to be created.

Tools -> Messages... (set Verbosity to 2) before opening the disc.

That shows the message window, which shows a log briefly before VLC crashes, much too quickly to read. Is there a way to write the log to a file?

[VLC_help]

Is there a way to write the log to a file?

AFAIK that feature is still broken. Can you play VIDEO_TS content correctly from hard drive?

[jumpfroggy]

Is there a way to write the log to a file?

AFAIK that feature is still broken. Can you play VIDEO_TS content correctly from hard drive?

Yeah, I ended up dragging & dropping the .VOB files one at a time into VLC. I know I could do a playlist, I was just too lazy to do it. So the video files play fine, it just doesn't play as a DVD either from the DVD drive or ripped to the HD.

[A5J4DX]

this has just started happening to me today but not for dvds as i havent tried it out with dvds but with .avi and mp4 and mkv and other formats i believe this may be a bug as ive never experienced this in my life with vlc

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Delete %appdata%/vlc folder

[A5J4DX]

i have but the problem still remains

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Uninstall VLC. Clean folders %appdata%/vlc and VLC install folders. Restart and reinstall.

[A5J4DX]

wont my settings get removed too then

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

yes.

[A5J4DX]

but i want to keep them

[cold]

I have tried the solution suggested by the admin, uninstalled completely, deleted app data, restarted and reinstalled. I did however, capture a video of the messages window as it crashes (couldn't copy paste after it crashed!). The video is viewable here: http://screencast.com/t/YTcwODIy.

[VLC_help]

cold: other videos work correctly?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

ok, did you try to deactivate DVD menus?

[sparkthela]

Like Jean-Baptiste Kempf suggested removing the DVD menus (open media -> select box no DVD menus) did the trick at least for me. The DVD that I tried to play didn't have menu and VLC didn't understand this automatically.

Funny, first time when Windows Media Player works and VLC doesn't!

[pcdec]

I had the same problem in 1.1.11 and in the other version I had (1.1.06 I think). I updated hoping it would fix the problem but it didn't. Deactivating DVD menus fixed the crashing. But Windows media player and GOM both work fine.

So what If I want to access the DVD menu to change from fullscreen to widescreen or to change something else? I can't seem to get to the menu at all with them disabled and enabling them makes VLC crash. So what's the point of having VLC?

Oh and I'm sure the topic starter waited around 4 months to watch a DVD because that's how long it took for a fix to be posted. How many new versions were released in that time? Why wasn't this fixed?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

How many new versions were released in that time? Why wasn't this fixed?

Because people are volunteers.

[Emphrath]

Hello there good people ! I think I might be of some help here. I've experienced this problem quite a lot these days, to the point I had to move to GOM player to read DVD (with problems of its own ). I had stumbled on this thread a couple of times already and tried all of the suggestions above (disabling menus, clearing cache and so on) to no avail. I ended up running a freshly installed virtual machine of Ubuntu Mate 18 with VLC shipped with it (and libdvdcss it seems) and here you go: the DVD worked perfectly, menus and subtitles included. I believe this is not exclusive to any linux distribution though. Is it because the version on VLC in the stable repository is older, or is it related to how linux handles DVD ? I have no idea but the fact is this bug doesn't exist in Linux. I thought it might help you troubleshooting this behavior on Windows. Cheers !