DVD and ISO

[SV7]

I choose to use Windows Media Player while playing ISO files in a virtual drive.

The main reason for this is that VLC player, remarkable though it is, doesn't seem to handle DVD menus very well. Often the links look "wrong" and menus/submenus are often missing big chunks of visual information (such as backgrounds and screenshots.) And actual NAVIGATION of menus isn't always what it should be (very glitchy.)

It's the same whether mounting an image file in the virtual drive, or simply opening the file directly from VLC, or whether opening a physical DVD using VLC.

Again, VLC is remarkable and I use it for playing just about every other kind of media file.

But the things I'm describing above make me reluctant to use it for DVD and ISO.

Anyone else feel the same way? Does anyone actually know why VLC behaves like this with DVD and ISO?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The DVD specification is confidential, and thus VLC implementation, of navigation especially, is reverse engineered. Not much to do.

[SV7]

Understood.

Many thanks.

As I said, I use a different player, out of choice, because of this.

I use VLC for everything else.