Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20

[Matthew Saltzman]

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:
> > I have libdvdcss from Livna and gstreamer-plugins-bad (who's idea was
> > naming the gstreamer-plugins-* series, anyway?) from RPM Fusion Free
> > (which contains /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstdvdspu.so).  But when I
> > play a commercial DVD, Totem reports that it can't find the Sub-Picture
> > Decoder plugin.  It offers to search, but finds nothing relevant.  The
> > DVD does play, but AIUI, without the plugin, I will have to manually
> > start each .VOB file.
> > 
> > Am I still missing something (I have most of the gstreamer plugins
> > installed by now), or is something misconfigured in Totem?  If there's a
> > bug, whose is it, Totem or the plugins?
> > 
> 
> 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.)

But that doesn't mean there isn't an issue with Totem that needs to be
resolved.

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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu