Playing commercial DVDs in Fedora 20 [SOLVED]

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Tue Feb 4 00:52:43 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 08:17 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: 
> 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.
> 

That was it, thanks!  Now to try to figure out why someone else with F20
and the same machine can't make it work.
-- 
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu



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