On 12/19/2015 06:01 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:29:05PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 09:32:53AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: >>> On 12/17/2015 08:33 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >>>> Hi all! >>>> >>>> I'm trying to finish setting up my newly upgraded C7 system. >>>> >>>> It's on the same hardware I ran C6 on for several years. on C6 I had no >>>> trouble playing DVDs (after installing tons of packages and libdvdcss). >>>> .... >>> I have found that whether VLC will play a DVD is somewhat dependent >>> on the DVD. I have played DVD's through VLC successfully on my >>> CentOS 7 system using the nux package stack, incidentally, but there >>> are several DVD's in my collection that will not play with the VLC >>> in nux dextop. But I also purchased (the very first version a >>> number of years ago) and keep support updated for the Fluendo >>> OnePlay DVD player (fully legal, licensed, DVD playback) and it both >>> works perfectly on CentOS 7 and plays those titles that VLC has >>> trouble with (like the DVD copy included in the Bluray edition of >>> Titanic). >> >> I don't play a LOT of DVDs, but on, e.g., C6 on the same hardware >> I don't recall ever having onefail to play with VLC. >> >> In looking at the source package for libdvdcss, last night, I see there >> are 3 different ways of cracking the encryption that it supports. The >> default one is to try to crack each file's encryption, with the down-side >> that it may fail entirely. there is also an option to crack the DISC's >> key which can then be used to decrypt each file. from the description >> it sounds as if the disc option might be better even though it isn't >> the default. >> >> If all else fails I will try hacking around with that option. > > OK, I haven't gotten very far, but there is one interesting observation: > vlc plays my homemade NON-encrypted DVDs just fine (except for the > DVD menus, on which for some reason it errors). This kinda hints that > VLC is not finding/opening libdvdcss even though I'm using the one > from the nux repos, same as the source of the VLC RPM I have. > > One would think that nux's VLC would work with nux's libdvdcss, but > this evidence makes me wonder... > > If nux is here, or if anyone here uses nux's vlc and libdvdcss with > SUCCESS, I'd appreciate hearing from them. > > Fred > > PS: > I'm not having any luck compiling libdvdcss from source... using > rpmbuild to create a RPM I keep getting errors about "unpackaged files > found", and can't figure out why or how to solve it (yes I've googled > for solutions). > Try this src.rpm http://awel.domblogger.net/7/media/src/repoview/libdvdcss.html That builds for me on EL7 in mock -- -=- Sent my from my laptop, may not be able to respond timely