Newbie Question: Problems on Mac OS X

[Christophe Massiot]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001, Andreas Gschwendtner wrote:

> I just downloaded the precompiled binarys of vlc for Mac OS X to play my
> .VOB-Files. For some of the files it works great, but for some others the
> app keeps crashing every time I try to invoke it. It really depends on the
> file I play, as the crashing always happens with the same files. Up to now I
> could not find a system tzo predict wich files vlc will play and wich not:
> It does _not_ depend on file size for example. I tried ripping my DVDs with
> DVD-Extractor 0.9b under Mac OS 9.2 as well as using many other ripping
> utilities on my Windows-PC. When I rip a DVD to 10 .VOB-Files for Example
> (e. g. a chapterwise rip), vlc will play _some_ of the ripped files but not
> all of them. What am I doing wrong??

You can only read .vob files if they are not CSS-scrambled. That's why
it works with some files, and not with others. We have a special DVD
input which does descrambling, and Florian is working on adapting it.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.