I am trying to liberate my old DVD collection from its optical media prison. I bought a cheapo external DVD drive, but I can’t get the DVDs to play or even cooperate for ripping. I can open the disc in the file manager and see the files on it, but I can’t play anything. Do some searching, I see a lot of things about installing libdvdcss, libdvdread, and libdvdnav. I did all that and still nothing. VLC gives me an immediate error. I also see a lot of stuff about installing and using regionset to change the region setting on the drive. However, that package seems to no longer be available. Any ideas of what else I could try?
Did you install ‘libdvdcss2’ ?
And here I thought that was just a T-shirt 😜
I did not know that existed. Thank you. I’ll try that when I get home from work.
Arch wiki has (again) good info on DVD setup.
On which OS and version are you?
I’m on cachyOS.
From a forum: “If you do not want to be bothered to figured out which you might need exactly then you could always install
vlc-plugins-base,vlc-plugins-extraor justvlc-plugins-allwhich would of course simply install all of them.”
What is the error that VLC gives you?
regionset’s homepage appears to have disappeared. If your distro no longer packages it, the source can still be obtained from Gentoo source mirrors (pick a server here and go into “distfiles” then “8b”).I had to change a setting in my app (handbrake) to actually use libdvdcss instead of whatever it defaults to. I also seem to remember having to copy/symlink libdvdcss.so into /usr/local/lib/.
Thanks for the tips, everyone, but I’m going to have to conclude there is something wrong with the drive. Regionset can’t read or set the region code. I’ll have to try a different device.
Ive had issues with this as well. Still have had no joy.
What DVD drive are you using? Ive read the hardware is also important, but I’m no expert.
