Certain DVDs won't play in VLC

[kyungsuk]

When i play my DVD's without dvd menus, this is what i get in the debugger and I can't figure out why.

Any help?

[01db13bc] logger interface: VLC media player - 1.1.5 The Luggage
[01db13bc] logger interface: Copyright c 1996-2010 the VideoLAN team
[01db13bc] logger interface:
Warning: if you can't access the GUI anymore, open a command-line window, go to
the directory where you installed VLC and run "vlc -I qt"

[01db13bc] logger interface: using logger.
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x0000015a
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00015885
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00015889
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x0003a589
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x0003c2fc
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x0003c312
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x0003cab6
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x0003caba
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x0003ccf3
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x0003cdae
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 5 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
[01d7e39c] main input error: Invalid PCR value in ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR !
[02a4d944] dvdread demux error: read failed for -1/4 blocks at 0x01

[Lotesdelere]

When i play my DVD's without dvd menus

Some DVD's are using a protection scheme which is forcing you to enable the menus.

viewtopic.php?p=238545#p238545

[kyungsuk]

When I play with menus, and I select an option such as play all, the dvd stops playing with the error above: read failed for -1/4 blocks at 0x01

the video disappears and i'm left with the vlc player in stopped mode.

[VLC_help]

VLC cannot play all DVD Video discs because they contain additional copy protection methods that VLC doesn't support. One option is to rip those movies to hard drive with tools like AnyDVD or DVDfab decrypter.