Blu-ray player for opensuse?

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#1

opensuse tumbleweed

Does there exist a blu-ray player for opensuse that can play commercial blu-ray content?

I have searched the forum; the most recent posting about this was in 2014. A web search found makeMK; it works, but is tedious to wait 90 minutes while it rips the media (the version available in the repo does not stream).

#2

I just use VLC. Works fine.

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#3

I tried VLC. It would not play the content.

#4

Please tell us the response VLC gave when you tried to play the disc.

#5

Do you have libdvdcss/libdvdcss2 installed? This is a requirement for most commercial/protected DVDs/BluRays…
The libdvdcss repository can be added/activated via yast software → community repos…

#6

May be you are missing some packages like libaacs, libbluray-bdj, libbluray, …

#7

Try installing VLC trough the community repositories and try again. As others pointed out, it could be a codecs issue.

https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories#Packman

#8

Hah! I did at one time. It is no longer and it is not available in the repo.

So I installed libdvdcss2. VLC now starts to load the disk contents, shows an image, the movie name, crashes. So it is possible VLC will play a BD, just not that one.

#9

It is in the repo
http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Leap_15.5/
which you can add with

zypper ar -f http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Leap_15.5/ libdvdcss
#10

AFAICT all of the libraries are installed, and now includes libdvdcss.

#11

VLC (v3.0.18-1699.10.pm.13) is installed from Packman. Is that not sufficient?

#12

Is KEYDB.cfg installed in ~/.cache/aacs/? (Name is case sensitive.) If not, get it from http://fvonline-db.bplaced.net/ and change keybd to KEYDB. If KEYDB.cfg is installed, search it for the title you are trying to play. If the key is not available, the disc will not play.

#13

Correcting myself.

It would be better to use:

zypper ar -f http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Leap_$releasever/ libdvdcss

as that might make it easier for a future upgrade to Leap 15.6

#14

SOLVED!

There was no .cache/aacs/ folder. I created it, downloaded KEYDB, watched a movie.

Thank you all for your help!

#15

I tried this. Tumbleweed does not do $releasevar.

#16

It does, but not usefully.

In any case, I gave you the URL for the repo for Leap 15.5, which was my mistake. For Tumbleweed, use:

http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/