Hello. I installed VLC along with some other stuff suggested (i think it was called libdvd… or something?). Whenever I insert a DVD, I still get the popup that gives me the options of:
Open with File Manager
Rip Video DVD Titles with k3b
Download Photos with digiKam
Copy with k3b
Download Photos with Gwenview
I don’t get anything like “Play DVD,” “Play with vlc,” “run auto play,” etc etc … is there any way to enable that or are those more of a windows thing? I can still play the dvd by manually opening vlc player and clicking media → open dvd.
Neither of the things he say (“KDED media manger” and “Media notifier daemon”) are check or running. I actually can’t find them at all (or how to add them).
There is already something called “Play DVD with Kaffeine” … however this choice never shows up when I toss a DVD in (as you can see from the earlier post).
There are 3 seperate entries for “Open with VLC media player”:
1st one says “Storage Volume, Optical Disc.” When I click edit, it looks like it’s for playing CD’s. The command is “vlc cdda://” and one of the parameters is “Content must equal Audio.” So I assume VLC installed right for playing CD’s.
The 2nd and 3rd ones say “Open with VLC media player” but say nothing else next to that. When I try to click “edit” it gives me the error “It appears the predicate for this action is not valid.”
The option to “Rip Video DVD Titles with K3b” always shows up in the dropdown when I toss a DVD in. So I looked inside it. The parameters are exactly the same as the “Play DVD with Kaffeine” which never shows up in the dropdown.
I tried uninstalling vlc (YaST → Software Management) then re-installing it and still have this problem … so it plays DVDs fine when I manually open vlc and go through the trouble of clicking the menus to open a DVD
Try clicking ADD
In the Box ‘Action Name’ that opens type: Play DVD with VLC
In the command line put: vlc --dvd %f
Configure the icon by clicking it and select the vlc cone
thnx for all your help. I got it to work by doing this:
Add -> Play DVD
Command: vlc dvd://
Parameters: Property ignored = false + device must be of type Optical Disk
Seems to be working now
I tried various stuff … for instance content must contain VideoDvd like how the “Rip DVD titles with K3b” uses and oddly enough, it worked for that one but not vlc. This is so frustratingly inconsistent (makes it hard to learn) … but at least it’s working now. I appreciate your willingness to help!
Just an example of how inconsistent it is … used the same exact settings that now work for VLC with the “Play DVD with Kaffeine” entry and that still doesn’t work LOL.
I discovered yesterday, when I went to play the first DVD since installing v11.3, that, just like “newbieLLP”, upon insertion into the system, there was no option in the notification thing to “play DVD with Kaffeine”. (Note: this is not a playback issue, as both Kaffeine and MPlayer are playing DVDs just fine; rather, it is simply an application handling issue).
Within the “System Settings > Advanced tab > File associations > x-content > video-dvd” , nothing appears in the Application Preference Order
Yet, within “System Settings > Advanced > Device Actions” resides an entry to “Play DVD with Kaffeine” (which appears to be correct when viewing its contents via “edit”)
Is this a common bug with v11.3 ? But more importantly, how do I achieve the functionality I seek?
