On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 19:41 -0500, Temlakos wrote: > Four days ago I ran the fedora-update script to move from F17 to F18. > > Everything seems to work, except one thing: applications like vlc and > Dragon, that I used to play DVD movies, won't open the disks. > > Whether they are commercial disks or the ones I prepared myself, makes > no difference: the disks won't play. The disks will mount, but > multimedia applications do not show up in the list of suggested > options. > > When I open vlc and tell it to "open a disc," it looks for a disk at > mount point "/dev/dvd" and says it can't find it. > > Dragon seems to know that I have a disk in the drive, and even > recognizes its volume name. But it never even gets to playing the > selection menu. > > In F17, I lost the ability to play commercial disks. Apparently I > never installed libdvdcss2. I tried that this time. It makes no > difference--because my multimedia apps won't play even the disks that > do not need libdvdcss* to play. > > These two applications will play multimedia files--except that vlc > will no longer play Matroska Video (.mkv) files, though Dragon will. > > I installed "rpmfusion" to get vlc. > > Any advice? (Other than simply "rip the DVDs to your hard drive and > have done with it." That's the perfect way to fill your hard drive to > capacity, a thing I prefer to avoid.) > > Temlakos Have you installed libdvdcss from Livna repo? -- ======================================================================= ... when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor. -- Fred Brooks ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
