Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20

[Steven P. Ulrick]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:02:54 +0000
Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:

> 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:
> > 
> > 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.)

Hello, Matthew
In VLC, locate the "Default optical device" settings following these
menus:
"Tools | Preferences | Show Settings (Simple) |
Input / Codecs | Optical drive | Default optical device"

I just changed "/dev/dvd1" to "/dev/sr0" and clicked "Save" to see if it
works.  So, I put a dvd in the drive and did the following from the
main GUI in VLC:
"Devices | Discs"

The DVD started playing perfectly.

If this is not what you wanted, I do apoplogize.

Steven P. Ulrick