On 12/17/2015 08:19 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 05:42:19PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 12/17/2015 5:33 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >>> vlc will kinda play movies, i.e., moving garbage appears on the screen, >>> sometimes it'll resemble something from the movie, but most of the time >>> not so much. I can't figure out what's missing here. >> >> >> that sounds like display driver issues. in VLC, try turning off >> all video hardware acceleration options. >> >> -- >> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz > > John, that doesn't make any difference, actually. It's just as bad > with accelerated rendering as without. > > It also, some of the time, complains about being unable to open > the disc, or a complaint for every file. sometimes not. but I can > open each file fine in other tools, because the disk is mounted. > > So, I'm wondering if there's something wrong with the libdvdcss from nux. > In the past I've always used the one from, er, I don't remember which > repo, but it was an older repo where the only thing still there was > libdvdcss. > > I'm just now in the process of building 1.3.99 from videolan.org, so > we'll see. > I use (and built) http://awel.domblogger.net/7/media/x86_64/repoview/libdvdcss.html and it works just fine with ripping DVDs but I don't play them with VLC. I just rip them with MakeMKV and then transcode to WebM to play them.