On 27/02/2015 06:29, jd1008 wrote:
Rented a DVD movie (the 3rd in the series Atlas Shrugged).
It would not play with any media player (such as smplayer, vlc, Dragon
Player, xine, totem, ... etc)
No errors in /var/log/messages.
I told the vendor, and they stuck it into a machine the "tests" it for
playability.
It took 5 seconds and it declared it playable :) :) Whatever ....
The surface seemed OK on visual inspection.
So, what could have gone wrong?
Anyone have this problem?
I don't know about that particular DVD, but many commercial DVDs are
encrypted. [1] While hardware players will decrypt out of the box, when
playing on a computer you may need to install a specific decrypting library.
As far as I know, on linux the only possibility is to install the
libdvdcss library [2] which cannot be distributed as its legality is in
a gray area (i.e. it may be illegal in certain countries).
What I usually do is to compile it by hand (it's not too hard) installe
it system-wide and players (esp. VLC) seem to pick it up automatically
(VLC forom my experience seems the best in playing commercial DVDs).
A couple of specific fedora-related pages in [3] and [4]
Hope this helps.
Lorenzo.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Scramble_System
[2] http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
[3]
http://studyhat.blogspot.it/2014/12/fedora-21-post-installation-guide.html
[4] http://geekface.ca/fedora/?q=installing (scroll to end of page)
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