Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Mon Feb 3 14:17:34 UTC 2014


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?

Totem in F19+ use gstreamer 1.0 as opposed to gstreamer 0.10. Be sure you have 
"gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld" installed.


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