[vlc] support needed

[Felix Paul Kühne]

Hello Simon,

after logging in to your "defect" account, open up the Terminal.app  
in /Applications/Utlities and type the following and hit return:

rm -rf .dvdcss

Try to play a DVD again. Does it work?


Best regards,

Felix

Am 06.07.2009 um 13:21 schrieb Simon Ings:

> Hi Felix
>
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> I deleted those two files/folders. Unfortunately the same issue is  
> happening.
>
> VLC doesn't crash, it just won't play the dvd properly, attached is  
> a screenshot showing the kind of corruption.
>
> I'm on VLC 0.9.9 (same happened on 0.9.2) and OS X 10.5.7
>
> It works fine in the other user account on my system
>
> <Picture 2.jpg>
>
>
> On 6 Jul 2009, at 12:14, Felix Kühne wrote:
>
>> Hello Simon,
>>
>> all files that could block VLC are currently stored in
>> $HOME/Library/Preferences/VLC and additionally in
>> org.videolan.vlc.plist next to that very folder. If you remove these
>> files, VLC is reset to its default state and will behave as expected.
>>
>> If this does not work, please give more details on what exactly
>> doesn't work. Does VLC launch? Does it crash? Does it miss its
>> controller window?
>>
>> Of course, providing the respective Mac OS X and VLC versions
>> definitely makes sense in your case.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Felix
>