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Four days ago I ran the fedora-update script to move from F17 to
F18.<br>
<br>
Everything seems to work, except one thing: applications like vlc
and Dragon, that I used to play DVD movies, won't open the disks.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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 <i>not</i> need libdvdcss* to play.<br>
<br>
These two applications will play multimedia files--except that vlc
will no longer play Matroska Video (.mkv) files, though Dragon will.<br>
<br>
I installed "rpmfusion" to get vlc.<br>
<br>
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.)<br>
<br>
Temlakos<br>
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