Can't play DVD's

[Viper5]

Whenever I pop in a DVD and my autorun comes up, selecting VLC as my player will only result in an error.

File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "dvd:D:\".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:D:\'. Check the log for details.

I have to manually go to the Video_TS folder, right click, and then select the play with VLC option which is highly annoying. Any way around this?

[VLC_help]

Your autoplay option is wrong. It should be something like dvd://D:\

[wraith65]

Your autoplay option is wrong. It should be something like dvd://D:\

Hi.

I have the exact same problem, however, i see that you have posted a possible solution, but i have absolutely no idea where i can change my autoplay option as you mentioned. Where do i go about changing this to the correct syntax?

[VLC_help]

Edit it via Windows registry or Windows Explorer (Folder options and File types).
http://attachments.techguy.org/attachme ... ptions.jpg

[wraith65]

Hey. This seem to be on right track, but im on a vista computer, and the folder options shown in the pic doesnt seem to exist in the folder options on vista. Could you point me to the correct registry path?

[VLC_help]

DVD\shell\PlayWithVLC\command
and
VLC.DVDMovie\shell\Open\command

[rubyred78291]

heh, could you dumb that down some more please? im having the same problem but im not as computer savvy as the rest of you i guess...

[VLC_help]

Open regedit (start -> run -> regedit)
Find the correct location (Edit -> Find... if the manual navigation is too hard)
and edit the value so it will look like vlc.exe" --started-from-file dvd://%1

[ingy_dust]

I made here a detailed explain. It's working for me now:

[wraith65]

I've checked those registry paths and they are already correct, yet the problem still persists. Any other thoughts?

[VLC_help]

wraith65: does it help if you remove %appdata%\vlc folder?

[wraith65]

Doesnt seem to work either.

[ntix]

Same problem here... I've tried those methods but doesn't work for me either.

[VLC_help]

So you still get

VLC could not open the file "dvd:D:\".

that error with VLC?

[ntix]

F: is my default CD/DVD ROM

[VLC_help]

That is different problem. Open Tools -> Messages... (set Verbosity to 2) and open the movie via Media -> Open Disc...