On 02/18/2013 09:50 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
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?
That's a very good question.
You see, I'd heard that Livna was no more.
I also tried libdvdcss in my F17 installation, and it didn't work at all.
But I found out--on another thread--that now you need /two/ CSS
libraries to play commercial DVDs. They are libdvdcss and libdvdcss2.
Happily, the second one depends on the first, so if you have access to
them both, you can instruct "yum install libdvdcss2" and that will
handle everything.
I had libdvdcss already installed. The F17->F18 upgrade gave me the
current version. (At least, I think it did.)
I found libdvdcss2 on ATrpms. To avoid repo conflicts, I installed that
file directly from its original site. (KDE's Apper lets me do that.)
Installing both libraries lets me play commercial DVDs once again.
As I said up-thread, the real problem was not having the proper mount
point. It is /dev/sr0, not /dev/dvd. (Though why the second won't
resolve to the first automatically, I don't know.)
I suppose I'd prefer an occasional issue like this, where someone can
advise me within twelve hours, to running Windows, in which, if it does
not work straight out of the box, it will never work at all. (And when
it does, it throws advertising at you.) Still, the more things work
straight after install, or especially upgrade, the better.
Temlakos
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