Freeware DVD Playing Software that handles menus well

[survient]

I need a freeware player that handles menu well, as VLC is laggy(I click a menu item and it takes 5 years to recognize the change) with these. I need the menus to be responsive as I'm testing the menus after burning my projects to isos and mounting them. Nero Showtime, as godawful as it is for a normal media player, works great with menus(I click the menu item and it does it) and is very responsive. If I can find a freeware program that does this I'll be set. Any suggestions?

[setarip_old]

Hi!

I experience no such delays with VLC. Perhaps you should try initially saving your DVD projects to your hard drive as DVD "packages" (.IFOs, .BUPs, .VOBs., in a folder), rather than as ISO image files...

[linyx]

I agree with "setarip_old", vlc is the best IMHO. You can also try Media Player Classic, but i think that the ISOs need to be mounted with Daemon Tools or whatever you use to work.

[survient]

maybe in linux vlc does menus fine but in windows it's laggy as all for me, and others I know have the same problem. I'm looking for something other than vlc. I have the latest version of vlc, and doing the encoded files as dvd file structures doesn't help. Regardless, this doesn't explain why Nero Showtime can handle the menus just fine and vlc lags so badly. The lag I'm talking about is that you click the item on the DVD menu, and vlc takes a year and a half to get to the next item, again, whereas Showtime doesn't skip a bit(when it doesn't crash). Honestly I don't like showtime, there's no way to enable subtitles by default, it doesn't recognize many commonly used formats, and most of all, it isn't free, so the people I'm working with to make the dvds can't use it(legally).

Also to clarify, this is the menus, the overall playback in VLC is great, I need something specifically to test the menus that responds reasonably.

[setarip_old]

(Again, using a DVD "package" rather than an ISO image file)Have you tried using Windows Media Player?



maybe in linux vlc does menus fine but in windows it's laggy as all for meNo one said anything about Linux - I'm a Windows user and, again, VLC works very nicely with DVD "packages", handling menus as quickly and properly as do dedicated software DVD players...

[linyx]

@survient
I am also a windows user, despite my username. The only solution i can think of is a complete reinstall of your OS (usually speeds programs up a bit for me:)).

[survient]

@survient
I am also a windows user, despite my username. The only solution i can think of is a complete reinstall of your OS (usually speeds programs up a bit for me:)).

The irony is I just reformatted about a week ago, and I've been testing dvds since day one of the reformat. WMP is complaining about it, it says "Windows Media Player cannot play DVD video. You might need to adjust your Windows display settings. Open display settings in Control Panel, and then try lowering your screen resolution and color quality settings." So I really have no idea. I was just hoping there was a decent DVD playing software suite out there that worked well.

[setarip_old]

WMP is complaining about it, it says "Windows Media Player cannot play DVD video. You might need to adjust your Windows display settings. Open display settings in Control Panel, and then try lowering your screen resolution and color quality settings."

http://forums.techguy.org/multimedia/532266-dvd-wont-play-windows-media.html

[survient]

I'm aware of codec packs to get it working, I'm looking for something all in one, kind of like how vlc player is. DirectShow codecs(as in media player classic) run laggy and buggy, always have for me regardless of the computer. Any other suggestions?