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getting started

Postby mikectc » 13 Oct 2011 22:09

very simply i'm a football who upgraded his camera to hd, a sony cx160. great hd film but no one can play the dvd's on their computers. i've tried downloading vlc on 2 different computers the download is sucessful but the dvd's still don't play. can't read error. i'm burning the discs on a sony dvd direct express and it says the format is avchd any suggestions?

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Re: getting started

Postby HAARP » 14 Oct 2011 02:16

Set the verbosity to 2 under tools -> messages, play the file again then post logs here. Or here if it's too long -> http://pastebin.com/

Also how are you trying to play file in vlc? Open disk, Advanced options, or what?

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Re: getting started

Postby VLC_help » 14 Oct 2011 19:23

I would guess there are .m2ts files in these discs. You can open them with VLC.

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Re: getting started

Postby mikectc » 14 Oct 2011 22:23

main error: open of `dvd://D:\' failed: (null)
this is the message i keep getting. i can take this same disk to a sony player and it plays just fine.

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Re: getting started

Postby HAARP » 15 Oct 2011 01:39

Open vlc ->media ->open disk ->play (If that doesn't work remove dvd:// from the file name then play again)

I'm playing blu-ray right now and it works just fine.

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Re: getting started

Postby VLC_help » 15 Oct 2011 15:07

Use Media -> Open file..., and locate the .m2ts files. Open Disc doesn't work with all AVCHD and Blu-ray discs.

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Re: getting started

Postby BilBg » 15 Oct 2011 15:09

main error: open of `dvd://D:\' failed: (null)
this is the message i keep getting. i can take this same disk to a sony player and it plays just fine.
Can you see the contents of this disk with Windows Explorer?
What files and folders do you see?

 

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Re: getting started

Postby mikectc » 17 Oct 2011 20:58

I CANNOT OPEN THE DISK WITH WINDOWS. WHEN I CLICK ON MEDIA.> OPEN FILE IT TAKES ME TO MY COMPUTER. WHEN I CLICK ON THE DRIVE ITS IN IT GIVES ME AN ERROR WHICH SAYS ITS MIGHT BE CORRUPTED OR IT ITS IN A FORMAT THAT CANNOT BE READ BY WINDOWS. ITS ONLY THE AVCHD DISCS THAT BI RECORD WITH MY CAMERA ALL THE OTHER DISCS WORK FINE IN VLC.

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Re: getting started

Postby VLC_help » 18 Oct 2011 15:44

If Windows doesn't recognize the disc content, VLC cannot playback it. Usually finalizing the disc in the recording device helps.


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