My laptop is almost 10 years old and I mainly use it for Spotify, YouTube, and watching DVDs. Recently, I've bought two separate DVD collections and when I play them in my laptops internal disc drive in VLC certain discs of the collections will stop mid episode and crash back to the VLC popup. Is the issue my computer or do I somehow keep buying defective DVDs? Would buying an external disc drive to play these DVDs fix the issue? Do I just have to keep buying copies of the DVDs and hope they work? Is it just because my laptop is old? I can hear a lot of whirring and fans when I play DVDs
Load up event viewer and see if there's anything on the log.
>>1512095>I can hear a lot of whirring and fans when I play DVDsthis is normal so I wouldn't worry about it. Why don't you just try to use a different media player and see if the same issue still occurs, if it does you know it is likely the DVD's if it doesn't it is VLC.
>>1512112I did but, I'll be honest, all of that is Greek to me. Still, nothing explicitly says 'VLC media player' or anything like that
>>1512142Try my solution it takes 30 seconds.
>>1512132I used PowerDVD on both and one played fine The other one is a crapshoot whether or not it will play fully. This is what makes it so agitating because I know the actual content is on the DVDs, they just won't play for some reason. Is it my computer being temperamental or something?
>>1512143I did. Like I said, nothing came up that explicitly said VLC or anything like that, from what I could see
try to copy the content of the dvd to your hd,if it copies well the problem is not the dvd player, if gives error or the transfer is very slow the problem is the dvd disk, if the transfer is slow you have to back up the contents of the suspect dvd to your hd because it is probably scratched and later the data will be urnrecoverable, if the dvd is scratched do not expect vlc to do miracles, if the dvd is not scratched and is copied well to your hd then the problem is vlc, try mpc
