[DONE] Problems playing video dvd with vlc player

[doktor5000]

UPDATE MY WHOLE PROBLEM MY HAR DRIVE CRASHED AFTER REPLACEMENT EVERYTHING WORKS GREAT! was so hopping this system would work out.. so far its more truble than its WORTH!!!!!!! i just installed mageia i am a very basic linux user i installed vlc media player it does not play dvds
i tryed to install libdvdcss but no luck there eather
i depend on my computer as i use it for EVERYTHING!
please help!

[Latte]

please check following:

- is your tainted repository active? Please read this:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Software_management or
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installing_a ... g_software

If you are not sure, if the tainted repo is activated please post the outcome of:

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urpmq --list-media active

If the tainted repos are not active, please do so (see link above) and run

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urpmi.update -a
urpmi -a vlc

to update the version with the tainted version.

If the tainted repos are activated, then you need to install libdvdcss2 (for a 32bit system) or lib64dvdcss2 for a 64bit system.

[james5469]

ran the code in termanal it came back with

Core Release
Nonfree Release
Core Release2
Core Updates
Nonfree Release2
Nonfree Updates
Core 32bit Release
Core 32bit Updates
Nonfree 32bit Release
Nonfree 32bit Updates

as far as i know i downloaded and installed the 64 bit system

my computer is a
dell workstation Precision 470
4 gigs ram
500 gig hard drive
2 gig videeo card

3.0gig? cpu
hope this helps

[james5469]

@Latte,
i tryed your ideas then
retryed vlc player i got this

Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd1".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/dvd1'. Check the log for details.

the dvd i tryed played in linux mint ubuntu pclinuxos and a few others
useing vlcplayer

[james5469]

i tryed to install lib64dvdcss2
i got message
failed to install file
failed with unknown error code

so now what???????

[Ken-Bergen]

For playing commercial DVD's you'll likely need the Tainted version of vlc.
So if you activate the Tainted repositories then update it will probably work.

[james5469]

hi kenbergen
ok how do i do that?

i really want this to work so far its the best linux i have tryed
except for playing dvds wich has always been so easy to set up in EVERY other linux distro i have tryed so far...

[Latte]

- Open Mageia Control Center (mcc)
- go to 'Software Management'
- go to 'Configure media sources for install and update'
- then tick the 'Tainted Release' and 'Tainted Updates' - (not Testing or Debug!)

then finally run the updater (MCC --> Software Management' --> 'Update your System')

then you should have the tainted version from vlc installed

[Ken-Bergen]

ok i did that the list that update installed was

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ffmpeg-2.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64avcodec55-2.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64avfilter3-2.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64avformat55-2.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64avutil52-2.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64dri-drivers-10.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64freetype6-2.5.0.1-3.1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64gbm1-10.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64glapi0-10.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64lame0-3.99.5-5.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64mesaegl1-10.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64mesagl1-10.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64mesaglesv2_2-10.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64mesaopenvg1-10.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64opencore-amr0-0.1.2-6.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64postproc52-2.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64swresample0-2.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64swscaler2-2.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64txc-dxtn-1.0.1-4.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64vo-aacenc0-0.1.2-3.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64vo-amrwbenc0-0.1.1-5.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64wayland-egl1-10.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64x264_133-0.133-0.20130823.stable.2.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- lib64xvidcore4-1.3.2-5.mga4.tainted.x86_64
- mesa-10.0.5-1.mga4.tainted.x86_64

so now i will try to play a dvd again and come back and let you know if working or not...

[james5469]

ok i tryed a dvd in vlc
i still get this

Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd1".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/dvd1'. Check the log for details.

so now what di i need to do????

[Latte]

It looks as it did not update the vlc
please show the out put of

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rpm -qa | grep vlc

And please use the code tags for the output (like it is described here: ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandriva/m ... e_tags.ogv). This makes it more readable. Thanks...

For comparison, this shows it from my computer:

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[root@Rechner Downloads]# rpm -qa | grep vlc
vlc-plugin-common-2.1.2-1.mga4.tainted
lib64vlccore7-2.1.2-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-plugin-pulse-2.1.2-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-plugin-theora-2.1.2-1.mga4.tainted
lib64vlc5-2.1.2-1.mga4.tainted
vlc-2.1.2-1.mga4.tainted

Please note the 'tainted' tag - this should be also present in your out put. If not please use

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urpmi -a vlc

but you need the Tainted repos activated.

[Ken-Bergen]

I don't believe the graphical update tool checks release repositories only update.
Running as root in a terminal

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urpmi --auto-update

should install the tainted version of vlc.

[doktor5000]

Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd1".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/dvd1'. Check the log for details.

If you only have one DVD drive in your box, then you need to do the following:
vlc -> Media -> Open disc -> DVD
and then change "Disc device" from /dev/dvd1 to /dev/dvd

Another Mageia user already reported that bug to vlc developers, should be fixed in later versions:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/10712

[james5469]

doktor5000 ,

i tryed that now i get no error message but it still does not play
vlc opens up fine when dvd inseted it just spins
vlc does NOTHING
so now what?

[doktor5000]

Please try again as described previously, but in addition tick the box "No disc menus". Does it play now?

Please also show the output of

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rpm -qa | grep -e vlc -e lib.*dvd | sort

[james5469]

aBIG THANK YOU!! to all of you that tryed to help after 2 LONG DAYS trying to make a simple program like VLC work i gave up went back to ubuntu i hate it that why i came here the only good thing with ubuntu is it WORKS without 2 or more days of playing with it to get a simple program working
GOODBYE!

[magump]

Sorry about the previous post. Didn't get to finish. As I stated, VLC simply would not playback a DVD. I tried everything mentioned in this post with no results. This is the only post I found on this subject. Therefore I went to this website: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/questi ... fedora-18/ from Fedora support and cut/pasted the following command in terminal with root privelages:rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/repo/18/x86_64/lib ... x86_64.rpm

Vlc now plays perfectly. Hope this helps anyone in the future. It worked for me.