DVDs wont play in Win 8

[emmjay]

Hi,
I'm not a "techy" so what I'm posting here may be silly, but its infuriating the hell out of me.
I've just upgraded to Windows 8 ( from Win 7) now that was a mistake in itself!! ( but thats another story).
I've always used VLC successfully in the past, but I just cant get it to play any DVDs at all now I just get the following error message.

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

Havent a clue what that means & I dont know where to look for the log.

I'm running a 64 bit machine & have a DVD RW & a Blue Ray RW, both with up to date drivers & neither will play DVDs. I'm running VLC 2.1.2 64 bit.
Any help would be appreciated.

[devonwoods]

I just uninstalled 2.1.2 and downloaded/installed 2.1.1 and I am back up and running on Windows 8.1 64-bit. Here's the link to download 2.1.1 again for your 64-bit OS http://download.videolan.org/videolan/v ... -win64.exe.

[emmjay]

Yep thanks thats sorted it for me too.

[eddie2102]

I have same issue. Just invested in new laptop win 8.1 . Downloaded VLC 2.1.2 but get following error message when opening DVD.
Blu-ray error:
Path doesn't appear to be a Blu-ray
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'bluray:///E:/'. Check the log for details

The Disc is certainly a BluRay.

Read somewhere that this issue is related to version 2.1.2 for 64 bit os and it was recommended to uninstall 2.1.2 and install 2.1.1. I attempted this, I found 2.1.1 download, download says 2.1.1 however about states 2.1.2.

So would like to know where I can download v 2.1.1 if this is a true fix and when 2.1.2 is likely to be fixed

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

[eddie2102]

Thanks to earlier post have now downloaded 2.1.1 however problem still exists

[coldreactive]

Here's the full messages log for 2.1.2 for those having trouble with DVD Playback:

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main debug: adding item `dvd:///E:/' ( dvd:///E:/ ) qt4 debug: Adding a new MRL to recent ones: dvd:///E:/ main debug: processing request item: dvd:///E:/, node: null, skip: 0 main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist main debug: rebuild done - 1 items, index 0 main debug: starting playback of the new playlist item main debug: resyncing on dvd:///E:/ main debug: dvd:///E:/ is at 0 main debug: creating new input thread main debug: Creating an input for 'dvd:///E:/' main debug: meta ok for (null), need to fetch art main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'C:\Users\Ian\AppData\Local\Temp' main debug: `dvd:///E:/' gives access `dvd' demux `' path `/E:/' main debug: creating demux: access='dvd' demux='' location='/E:/' file='E:\' main debug: looking for access_demux module matching "dvd": 12 candidates main debug: looking for meta fetcher module matching "any": 1 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Ian\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\fetcher lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\fetcher\tvrage.luac main debug: using meta fetcher module "lua" main debug: removing module "lua" main debug: searching art for dvd:///E:/ main debug: looking for art finder module matching "any": 2 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\Ian\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\art lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\00_musicbrainz.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\01_googleimage.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\02_frenchtv.luac lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\art\03_lastfm.luac dvdnav warning: cannot open DVD (E:) main debug: no art finder modules matched main debug: art not found for dvd:///E:/ qt4 debug: IM: Setting an input dvdread error: DVDRead cannot open source: E: main debug: no access_demux modules matched main debug: creating access 'dvd' location='/E:/', path='E:\' main debug: looking for access module matching "dvd": 20 candidates main debug: no access modules matched main error: open of `dvd:///E:/' failed main debug: dead input main debug: changing item without a request (current 0/1) main debug: nothing to play qt4 debug: IM: Deleting the input

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Try 2.1.3