[muglo] DVD Player and VLC Player Problem
- From: Paul Thomas <paul_thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: MUGLO List <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:50:55 -0400
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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