DVDs very slow to load

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DVDs very slow to load

Postby vlanman » 20 May 2010 10:52

All of a sudden I am experiencing very slow load times when opening DVDs. If I select Media->Open Disc, the VLC interface will go blank and freeze for about 30 seconds. All of the controls and menus then re-appear. At this point if I click the play button, there will be another pause of around 20-30s after wich the DVD will open and start playing properly. Its not just one DVD, its happening for all of my DVDs and never used to be this way.
The "check for updates" option says that I am running the latest version.
Does anyone know how I can fix this problem?

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Re: DVDs very slow to load

Postby vlanman » 20 May 2010 10:55

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm running WinXP SP3.

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Re: DVDs very slow to load

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 20 May 2010 16:42

Try VLC 1.1.0-rc
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Re: DVDs very slow to load

Postby vlanman » 20 May 2010 20:08

Thanks but where can I download the 1.1.0-rc build from? I've just been searching for it without any success.

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Re: DVDs very slow to load

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 21 May 2010 13:13

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Re: DVDs very slow to load

Postby faithhevans » 21 May 2010 20:24

Here is a solution for a problem that may be the DVD disk is not of good quality so it will take more time than natural or may be something wrong with the DVD writer itself.So check that out it will surely help.

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Re: DVDs very slow to load

Postby red_candle » 24 May 2010 05:47

does that happen with other media players or just VLC?


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