Can't play commercial DVDs [solved]

[Guest Anne Wilson]

In a clean install of Spring, I find that I can't play commercial DVDs. I have libdvdcss and libnav packages, but every encrypted disks refuses to play. Everything that I can remember using in the past is installed. Xine is my preferred player, but mplayer won't play them either.

 

What am I missing?

 

Anne

[scarecrow]

Add from the "easyurpmi" link on top of the forum first page all available repositories, including the PLF ones, and then open a console and

 su -c "urpmi libdvdnav libdvdcss2"

 

Some new DVD titles by Sony (ArcCos protected) won't play. Actually they refuse to play in quite a few standalones as well.

Edited May 16, 2007 by scarecrow

[zibi1981]

So perhaps we have to wait for a new version of libdvdcss :P

[Guest Anne Wilson]

So perhaps we have to wait for a new version of libdvdcss :P

 

I already had plf sources added. I did have libdvdcss installed. No encrypted DVDs would play at all, even ones that I had played some time back under earlier releases.

 

Someone suggested that I install LinDVD, and sure enough it worked with everything. What's more, xine worked perfectly after that. Presumably that means that LinDVD installed something that had been missing.

 

I had spent a good deal of time checking plugins etc against a list from another Mandriva user, and nothing was obviously wrong. The good news is that I have a working xine. The bad news is that I shall never know why it didn't work before.

 

Anne

[zibi1981]

Did You try playing your DVDs with Kaffeine?

[neddie]

Just for the record, I had no probs playing commercial DVDs as soon as I'd remembered to reinstall libdvdcss after going to Spring.

The only niggles I had were that:

* Playing DVDs (or even just avis) with Kaffeine gave very jerky results. I found that using KMplayer the picture was much better, clearer, smoother.

* With both clients, the picture was much too bright, until I played with the video options of each and selected "OpenGL". With that, both players then returned to normal brightness (as they were under 2007 with the default settings).

[Guest Anne Wilson]

Did You try playing your DVDs with Kaffeine?

 

No. I haven't used Kaffeine for a very long time. I installed it long ago but got really irritated by that spinning coffee bean. I haven't installed it since :-)

 

I did try mplayer and vlc, though.

 

I know that others have been able to play their DVDs, which makes it all the more puzzling. I really can't see what was different about my installation. All sources were set up using easyurpmi, so I couldn't have pulled in a wrong version of libdvdcss.

 

Anne

[AussieJohn]

It rarely happens but sometimes a software download may seem ok but still be problematical.

 

Try deleting the libdvdcss and then reinstalling it. I also found a long time ago the installing libdvdcss-devel

also helped when I occasionally had DVDs that still would not play.

 

Cheers Ann. John.

Edited May 18, 2007 by AussieJohn

[Guest Anne Wilson]

It rarely happens but sometimes a software download may seem ok but still be problematical.

 

Try deleting the libdvdcss and then reinstalling it. I also found a long time ago the installing libdvdcss-devel

also helped when I occasionally had DVDs that still would not play.

 

Cheers Ann. John.

 

Worth bearing in mind, John. I'll leave well alone for now, but I have more installs to do later. If I meet the same problem there I'll make sure that libdvdcss-devel is also installed. Thanks

 

Anne