DVD Will Not Play from External DVD Drive

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DVD Will Not Play from External DVD Drive

Postby video45 » 16 May 2024 21:41

Hi

I just purchased and added a new external DVD drive. VLC reads the the drive and the dvd in the drive but does not play DVD.
I reset preferances and still nothing.

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Re: DVD Will Not Play from External DVD Drive

Postby Lotesdelere » 17 May 2024 10:45

Make sure to use an USB 3 port, those marked with the Super Speed SS logo, at least.
Also try with another USB port and with another USB wire.

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Re: DVD Will Not Play from External DVD Drive

Postby video45 » 17 May 2024 15:03

No results. It reads the dvd, start ups up, the orange line/ball moves back and forth across the playing time lime at the bottom for a second then stops. If I click on play, the same thing happens.
I'm plugged into the USB 3 SS port. And I tried other ports. The same thing happens. Does VLC need to be uploaded again, even though I done this several times or is it a settings issue.

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Re: DVD Will Not Play from External DVD Drive

Postby Lotesdelere » 18 May 2024 13:24

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the conversion, and then paste the full resulting log here or on Pastebin.com or on Justpaste.it if it's too long.

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Re: DVD Will Not Play from External DVD Drive

Postby video45 » 20 May 2024 02:35

No messages in message page. Page is blank even when I set Verbosity to 2.

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Re: DVD Will Not Play from External DVD Drive

Postby Lotesdelere » 20 May 2024 10:03

Impossible. You need to open the messages windows BEFORE you start the playback and to keep it open during the whole process.

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Re: DVD Will Not Play from External DVD Drive

Postby video45 » 20 May 2024 13:14

Hi
Below is the URL with the mesaage log
https://justpaste.it/ajqrb

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Re: DVD Will Not Play from External DVD Drive

Postby Lotesdelere » 21 May 2024 09:53

Code: Select all

dvdnav warning: cannot get next block (Error reading from DVD.)

Does it happen with all of your DVDs or just one ?

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Re: DVD Will Not Play from External DVD Drive

Postby video45 » 21 May 2024 15:34

All DVDs. I've tried older and newer DVDs and the samething happens. It briefly tries to play then wont play.

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Re: DVD Will Not Play from External DVD Drive

Postby video45 » 24 May 2024 16:45

Hi
How do I unblock the block that is preventing the DVDs from playing.

Thanks

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Re: DVD Will Not Play from External DVD Drive

Postby Lotesdelere » 25 May 2024 13:05

You should create a new report ticket on the VLC issues tracker with your above report, the link to your messages log and the link to this thread:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues

If possible, because of this:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 27#p538427


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