Comment 37 for bug 377414

After having the same problems with The Fighter and Capote, some experimentation with vlc actually got them working fine. It might work for some of the other problem dvds, so it's worth trying at least.

(Replace /dev/sr0 with your own dvd drive in the command below: vlc's dvdsimple option disables dvd menus, and I start the film at a specific chapter and title (just 40 seconds in for Capote, and at the start for The Fighter (for some reason #69:1 works).

(The aspect ratio will be wrong for some reason, so just adjust it in the options; stating it on the cmd-line didn't seem to work)

For Capote:

vlc dvdsimple://dev/sr0#1:1 :disc-caching=300 :start-time=40.000

For The Fighter:

vlc dvdsimple://dev/sr0#69:1 :disc-caching=300