Thanks Thomas - that's done the trick. Will setup an alias or a one line shell script now.
Cheers Rob From: Hampshire <hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk> On Behalf Of Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire Sent: 06 March 2023 09:21 To: Rob Malpass via Hampshire <hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] VLC on Ubuntu not playing some DVD VRs Hi Rob, I've looked through some D-Bus code, and I think there's an environment variable that might let it continue after this error. Can you try: DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=0 vlc Best wishes, Thomas On Mon, 6 Mar 2023, at 08:51, Rob Malpass via Hampshire wrote: Hi all This might sound like an old chestnut but I'm fed up of googling because it is qutie "subtle".... I have some home-recorded DVDs (converted to ISO) which won't play on VLC on Ubuntu (Jammy). VLC opens and crashes immediately. The trouble is: * The same files play fine on VLC on both Mac and Windows * Some other home-made DVD ISOs play fine on Jammy. It may be that I recorded the working ones with one DVD recorder and the non-working ones with another DVD recorder. Come what may - both Mac and Windows will play all of them. I've run vlc from the command line and I get the error below. It looks like it's something to do with a locale. FWIW I've changed the output between wayland on gnome and X11 - but neither works. Any ideas anyone? Cheers Rob VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2) Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway. disc.c:437: error opening file BDMV/index.bdmv disc.c:437: error opening file BDMV/BACKUP/index.bdmv bluray.c:2652: nav_get_title_list((null)) failed dbus[7041]: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2760. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace Aborted (core dumped) -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
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