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Re: [LUG] DVD drive and Mint 16

 

On 08/01/14 19:23, Julian Hall wrote:
Hi All,

I can hear a couple of heads hitting desks already with that subject line :) However, it's not a /major/ problem, just an irritation. The situation now is that Mint 16 will recognise when any disk is inserted and automount the drive. However what it will /not/ then do is actually /play/ all disks. For example, Avengers Assemble is recognised when it is inserted, but when I attempt to play it in VLC Player it just closes with no message - although previously it did throw up an Ubuntu error which I don't now remember as it's not doing it anymore. I'm going to experiment with different movies from different manufacturers and movie companies to see if there is any common factor, i.e. all DVDs from the same company refusing to play.

Kind regards,

Julian

VLC is the best media player with the worst debugging info - you probably need to install some non-standard dvd decryption libraries - and run a shell command !! My machine had parole as default and googling for the error messages from that took me to the solution but I cant find it now...
Tom te tom te tom

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