[muglo] DVD Player and VLC Player Problem

Nothing to do with iDVD this time!!

An interesting problem to which I don't know if anyone has an answer!

I borrowed some DVDs from the London Library and wished to make some 
screen caps from the second of two disks.  I started making some using 
VLC and Grab; one can't use Grab with DVD Player!  I made quite a few 
screencaps on the Saturday evening without any problem; when I came to 
get some more on Sunday, I could not get VLC to work with the DVD - it 
would not open!  I then tried using DVD Player and could not get it to 
work reliably either - might work after waiting a long time with the 
'coloured ball' running for several minutes rather than the almost 
instant start up!  I wondered if a fault had occurred in the two 
programmes, but they both worked fine with the other disk (of the pair) 
and also another completely different disk!!  I then wondered if I had 
somehow damaged the second disk, but it worked perfectly on a regular 
DVD player!

So it seemed that both progammes are working all right and that the 
disk itself is all right!!  The only other thing I thought was that 
some preference bit associated with the particular disk was stored 
somewhere (for both programmes!!) though why I don't know??  I even 
tried reloading VLC without any effect!  I believe I even cleared the 
cache in case it was there?  Of course I suppose the programmes could 
have their own caches but why both should get corrupted?

Does anyone know if there is a place where such information would be 
stored so that I can delete it and try again?

Or suggest anything else!  It does seem a bit odd as to why it should 
store information pertaining to a particular disk!

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Paul

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