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?
On 2015-02-26 22:29, 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?
You configuration play commercial DVD's?
What version of Fedora?
Did you try playing from the cmdline and see the error messages with mplayer or vlc?
Does it play in your home player?
Region issue with your DVD player in the computer?
As some libraries necessary to play are not provided by Fedora, it may be better to move to the rpmfusion list.
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)
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 22:29 -0700, 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.
You haven't said if you've been able to play other discs with the software.
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 ....
Yeah, hardly an exhaustive tests. Some discs won't work in some standard DVD players, never mind computers. So you'd really need to try more than one player before you declare that there's nothing wrong with a disc.
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