I don't know where to post this but I've had some trouble with the VLC player. For some reason the newest updates of VLC (0.9.8 and 0.9.9) do not want to play region 1 DVD's. There is a bug of some sort. I recommend using version 0.8.6h. Do not use version 0.8.6i because there is a bug in snapshot function and the program crashes every time.

Here is a website which has all the VLC versions for download:

http://www.oldapps.com/VLC_Player.php