DVD Skips in VLC

[Monkeyman]

I've had issues with VLC and DVDs since 2.0.  When it plays, it plays fine.  About 1/2 of my DVDs (both originals and copies of my originals) refuse to play.  Like the OP, they play fine on my Windows based laptop.  I'm about ready to switch my laptop from Win7 to LL but want to be able to play my DVDs first.

Are there other media players that work better than VLC?

[liamjake05]

Is it the DVD itself

[kjacobs]

Thanks fellas.....I will have to give the caching option a try. I ended up switching to Totem media player for playing DVDs in the interim. It works well and also supports DVD menus.


I will take a look again at VLC and see what happens......


Thanks.

[Jerry]

You can try adjusting the caching in VLC, eg. http://superuser.com/questions/11135/when-playing-dvds-with-vlc-media-player-both-video-and-audio-pause-several-time

[gold_finger]

I'm bumping this for the O.P.

Anyone have any idea what might be the problem with VLC here?  (I don't -- and didn't have much luck trying to find solution with search engine.)

[kjacobs]

Hello again,


I have always used VLC as my go-to media player...even before my linux days. And it has always worked perfectly for playing DVDs. However, recently I was trying to watch a couple DVDs and had issues with the video skipping sections of the movie during playback. The video would pause.....then skip a couple minutes of the movie before continuing. (This of course greatly interrupted family movie night). I tried running this DVD on 3 different machines....all running LL 2.6 and all running VLC. Finally, we finished the night switching to my wife's Windows 10 machine, also running VLC, in order to watch the film.


The next day I installed SMPlayer to try the same DVD and it played fine. However, I cannot get to the DVD menu in SMPlayer and movie's since have had problems getting to the main feature without the menu. Tonight, once again, family movie night required a Win 10 machine to run the movie correctly.


Soooooo....what has happened to VLC and its ability to play DVDs? What other media player options are there that will support DVD menus? I am frustrated having to revert to Windows just to do family movie night.....


Thanks in advance....


Ken