VLC closes with ISO file

[saelruth]

Hello everyone. I apologize ahead of time if I seem naive to all this, but I am. I have been using VLC for years to play my dvd's, especially since I have a collection of them from different regions. But now I find that I'm trying to do a seemingly simple task and it's just not working and I only have a few more days to get it working.

I'm going on a long (3-week) trip with my 4 year old son and can't bring too much with me. Since we probably won't have a tv I thought it might be a good idea to copy some of his fav DVD's onto a hard drive and he can occasionally watch something on my netbook. Simple and quite honest -- I own all the DVDs, I just can't lug them around and the netbook doesn't have a drive anyway.

I've tried dvdcopy123, a bunch of free ISO programs and a whole bunch of programs, but nothing seems to be working. DVD123 only copies half the movie, the ISO seems to work but I can't play it -- mounted or directly through VLC, it's not working. I see the first 5-10 seconds, then VLC just shuts down -- no errors or warnings, it simply doesn't play the movie (which I believe is there since it starts).

Can anyone tell me why this might be happening or a way to get around it all? I was hoping to have a respectable collection made and ready to go by now and time is running out fast.

I'm pretty good with computers, but I've never had a reason to do such a thing until now so this is all pretty new to me --

Any help is really appreciated.


I've tried it on my home laptop and on the netbook -- both using winXP. VLC says: 1.1.5 Goldeneye/compiler 4.4.2 (GCC). The pc is not new, but the netbook is just about a year old. I can't even begin to remember which program finally made the ISO, I've been using virtualclone drive to mount (and also tried daemon tools lite before. Same results. I was under the impression VLC could play ISOs without mounting, but I could be completely wrong here.

Please help...a content 4-year old, makes for a happy adult.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Just copy the VIDEO_TS folders directly to your drive.

[saelruth]

Sounds crazy, I just never thought that could work! It did. Not with the Disney movies, but that's fine. Thank you, thank you!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Disney are evil, so that is fine.