Re: Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20

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On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 15:00 -0600, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: 
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:02:54 +0000
> Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 18:10 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: 
> > > On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 10:59:16PM +0000, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > 
> > > Have you tried using VLC instead?
> > 
> > I hadn't, but I did at your suggestion.  After a couple of false
> > starts, it seems to be working.  (Seems very flexible.  But I can't
> > find a way to set the default "disc" device.  It assumes /dev/dvd1,
> > but Fedora uses /dev/sg0 on my machine.  I couldn't find anything in
> > the preferences to fix that.)
> 
> Hello, Matthew
> In VLC, locate the "Default optical device" settings following these
> menus:
> "Tools | Preferences | Show Settings (Simple) |
> Input / Codecs | Optical drive | Default optical device"
> 
> I just changed "/dev/dvd1" to "/dev/sr0" and clicked "Save" to see if it
> works.  So, I put a dvd in the drive and did the following from the
> main GUI in VLC:
> "Devices | Discs"
> 
> The DVD started playing perfectly.
> 
> If this is not what you wanted, I do apoplogize.

No, that does fix the default device in VLC, which is one thing I wanted
to know how to do.  Thanks.

> 
> Steven P. Ulrick
> 

-- 
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu

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