Use a professional DVD ripper like WinX DVD Ripper to rip your DVD to the DVD folder or ISO image that VLC media player can play in a much easier manner, especially when your discs are old enough. To play encrypted DVDs from different regions without crashes, libdvdcss is the essential tool. So, update your VLC media player to the latest version. The older version of VLC DVD player may not suit the new released DVD codecs, which may cause VLC crashing issue. Reinstall the latest version of VLC media player Open Media on top left corner > choose Open Disc > select DVD under Disc Selection > replay the DVD file to check whether VLC media player can play DVD or not.Ģ. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling VLC and still having the issue.' Question: 'So I have had a couple computers at my school just start having this issue where when you try to play a DVD, it thinks about it and then the VLC window just disappears. Actually, VLC not playing 4K HEVC/H.265 has been a common problem that is still unresolved by VLC developer, under such circumstance, you may turn to VLC alternative – 5KPlayer. VLC performs badly with skipping frames and mosaics when playing 4K UHD H.264 videos lower than 120Mbps, and VLC crashing happens when the bit rate gets higher or the 4K video is encoded with HEVC. I once downloaded various MKV videos in different resolutions and bit rates to play with VLC, and found that VLC plays MKV very successfully and smoothly only when the video is in low resolution.

So, try to download VLC codec pack to add support for more codecs and file types.

When your VLC lacks specific codecs, your VLC media player will crash to play certain files that have the codecs. Like MOV, MP4 and AVI file format, MKV is also multimedia container format that different MKV files may contain different video audio codec.

VLC media player 3.0.1 has already fixed some VLC MKV crash problems, so uninstall your VLC and update itto this version or to the newest version VLC 4.0. If you wanna try, you can click on Tools > Preferences > Input/Codecs > Hardware-accelerated decoding > choose DirectX Video Acceleration (DVXA) 2.0 and Save.

Someone has changed the hardware acceleration of VLC from Automatic to DirectX Video Acceleration(DVXA) 2.0, and find it works for VLC crashing MKV.

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