[SOLVED] DVD movies won't play

[harkelyn]

I'm unable to get either VLC or the Videos a.k.a Totem player, to play any DVD commercial-release movie or television series episodes. The DVD title gets displayed, however the content cannot be accessed for playback. This is on a fully updated Mageia 9 system.

In VLC, I tried disabling hardware-accelerated decoding, because someone posted on this forum in 2022 about DVD movies not playing in Mageia 8, and apparently that was helpful for them. However, disabling hardware-accelerated decoding [in the VLC Preferences menu] did not improve my situation, so now I've restored that to its default Automatic setting.

When I try playing a DVD movie in Videos/Totem it displays the movie or television series title, then this-

"An error occurred - The source seems encrypted and can't be read. Are you trying to play an encrypted DVD without lobdvdcss?"

These are commercially released entertainment DVDs, not encrypted content.

I searched the MCC software manager for any uninstalled package with "lobdvdcss" in the name, did not turn up anything.

These packages are installed-

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rpm -qa | grep gstreamer
gstreamer1.0-gstclutter3-3.0.27-5.mga9
lib64gupnp-dlna-gstreamer-0.12.0-4.mga9
gstreamer1.0-farstream-0.2.9-6.mga9
packagekit-gstreamer-plugin-1.2.6-2.mga9
gstreamer1.0-tools-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
lib64gstreamer1.0_0-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
lib64gstreamer-plugins-base1.0_0-1.22.11-1.2.mga9
lib64gstreamer-plugins-base-gir1.0-1.22.11-1.2.mga9
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-1.22.11-1.2.mga9
gstreamer1.0-cdio-1.22.11-1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-libav-1.22.11-1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-a52dec-1.22.11-1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-mpeg-1.22.11-1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-cdparanoia-1.22.11-1.2.mga9
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-1.22.11-1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-dv-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-pulse-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-twolame-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-soup-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-flac-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-lame-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-speex-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-wavpack-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-vp8-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-soundtouch-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-rtmp-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-gme-1.22.11-1.1.mga9
gstreamer1.0-gsm-1.22.11-1.1.mga9

[doktor5000]

I searched the MCC software manager for any uninstalled package with "lobdvdcss" in the name, did not turn up anything.

It's libdvdcss - lib like in library.

And most commercial DVDs are encrypted. Have a look at https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
And check some previous threads on the topic:
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10899
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=4813

Long story short: you want tainted repos to be enabled, and then install libdvdcss (package name is lib64dvdcss2)
FWIW: those are even recommended in mageiawelcome for DVD playback.
See also https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Install_medi ... geia_media

[harkelyn]

Well...that's an embarrassing combination of errors on my part. I've checked the control settings for tainted repositories, and made some needed corrections. The problem is solved. Thank you.

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread as solved, by editing the subject of the first post, thanks in advance.