Thanks for the reply, yeah that's interesting, I remember also having issues with VLC as a kid (I'm in my late 20's now), but I always chalked it up to me being a noob and not knowledgeable, I wonder retrospectively how much of that were actual me-issues and how much VLC-issues. Recently one of my parents wanted to play a DVD via VLC which did not work, where the issues ultimately was missing DVD libraries which apparently can't be shipped in Ubuntu due to licensing issues (libdvdcss). 12 year old me wouls not be able to debug this issue to be honest.