can't get videolan to work

[Xavier Marchesini]

Willw693 at cs.com wrote:


> I have a basic HP Pavillion with a 800MHZ Intel Celeron Processor and a 
> Pioneer DVD-115 DVD-ROM Drive that I took from another system and just 
> installed on mine (which previously didn't have a DVD-ROM).  I'm running 
> Windows ME.


Well that may be the point :-)



> When I run vlc.exe, I get the client user interface.  I click "disc" and 
> specify DVD and my drive designation E.  I click "OK", the little box 
> dissapears and then I click "Play" on the user interface and nothing happens. 
>  I've even tried with a VCD and still nothing happens.  Any ideas?  I read 
> all about this program on the Videolan website and was excited about it.  I'm 
> disappointed that I can't get it to read DVD's or VCD's.  Any help you can 
> provide will be greatly appreciated.

Could you please send us the log messages issued by the VideoLAN Client 
? (View / Messages)

This would give us a clue about your problem.

-- 
Xavier MARCHESINI <mailto:xavier.marchesini at via.ecp.fr>
Ecole Centrale Paris, promotion 2oo2, option Informatique
http://werewolf.via.ecp.fr/~xav/cv.pdf



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