where is "log" for DVD that will not load

[grayghost2]

Movie:= What Maise Knew
Madmen Entertainment
MMA8956
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See EDIT below
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Will only load + play via DVD player, will not load on laptop (I have tried it on 2 PCs too, with same failure)
All 3 DVD/CD drives on laptop + 2 PCs all "struggle" to load the DVD.

Disc surface looks perfect (a rental)

I wanted to watch the movie on my laptop

VLC showed a new window "Errors"

Playback failure:
VLC cannot set the DVD's title. It possibly cannot decrypt the entire disc.
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///D:\'. Check the log for details.

Where would I find the log.
(On VLC Forum I found one post "Tools" menu, but nothing on my version of VLC)

Win7 64-bit
- VLC 2.1.1 Rincewind -- did not open
- DVD would not load nor eject, had to emergency shutdown
Win7 32-bit (Toshiba laptop)
- VLC 2.0.8 Twoflower -- source of "Errors" window ... SEE "Edit" below
- DVD would not load, but did eject
WinXP sp2
- would not load, but did eject

Are DVDs being coded to not play on anything other then a pure DVD player ?

I am not an expert, would appreciate any feed back, thank you
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EDIT
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Just updated laptop from "2.0.8 Twoflower" to "2.1.2 Rincewind"
- DVD now loads and plays
BUT ...
Win7 64-bit
- DVD will not even load. Would this be a hardware problem
- VLC 2.1.1 Rincewind -- does not even open

[snafu]

I have same problem.
New computer, Windoze 8.1. Installed VideoLAN: it plays files fine from HDD but won't recognise any DVD in the DVD drive.

Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "F:".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///F:/'. Check the log for details.

?

[devonwoods]

I received the same error. VLC was working just fine on Windows 8.1. I recently installed an update for VLC and that is when I got this problem.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Try 2.1.3 for this issue.