by Bobby » Sat Apr 28, 2018 8:59 am
HI Bob - thanks for the help!
I erased the OpenDVD folder and VLC then played it fine.
Well, it's interesting. There are no error messages when I try to" VLC Open Folder" to the folder containing both the OpenDVD folder and the video_ts folder. It just doesn't play, although one time (not always) I saw a moving yellow bar in the VLC progress bar.
Another odd behavior of VLC (I checked and do have the latest version) is that when I tried to erase other OpenDVD frolders after trying to play them, Windows said I couldn't erase as the folder was in use by VLC. But VLC was not running at the time. I checked the Task Manager and couldn't find a VLC task or service running but perhaps I didn't recognize the name. Odd...
Edit: Further info. Yes, I found the VLC task running in Task Manager. It seems that when VLC is trying to process the OpenDVD folders, it doesn't play but uses up a LOT of CPU time trying to do something. Even if you click X to terminate VLC, the window closes but the task continues to run and suck up CPU. This behavior only happens on OpenDVD folders - when playing "regular" DVD image folders, VLC plays fine and exit as appropriate.
Well, I am just going to delete all the OpenDVD folders and make sure none are created.
Bobby (Bob Seidel)