Earlier, I tried playing a DVD using VLC media player (this is the first time I’ve tried to play a DVD on this machine). The video worked great, but there was no sound. I did a Google search and found a step-by-step guide for getting DVDs to run on 11.2.
This guide advised that I install several packages that had dependencies which could not be resolved. A little research indicated that many of these packages were considered obsolete. However, I had the “new” libraries, so I went ahead and installed the “broken” packages.
Now, when I try to run the DVD with VLC (or Xine, or Kaffeine…), nothing happens at all. When I exit out of VLC, I find that the DVD is no longer mounted or even acknowledged, and it cannot be ejected from the tray. A complete reboot is the only thing that fixes this.
Is there a more up-to-date guide on getting DVDs to work in 11.2?
EDIT: It would appear that the guide was edited just yesterday. Why is it advising the installation of obsolete libraries?
I add the packman and vlc repositories and then install vlc and
libxine1, the rest is installed as dependency
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I’m going through the whole process again, and an example of an “out of date” library would be ffmpeg0. It requires libavutil50, which according to Almighty Google is obsolete.
Is this the command to use in the terminal? It seems… incomplete somehow.
I just went through the whole guide, and attempted to resolve dependencies by “downgrading” the offending libs (e.g. ffmpeg0). My machine does not acknowledge the fact that the DVD is even in the tray, and I cannot eject it…
Hm. I am unsure as to why this guide works for everyone but me. These libs shouldn’t be too terribly out of date, I would think.
Yes, I removed it the first go around, but evidently forgot to do so on the second. :shame:
I wasn’t trying to say that your guide was inaccurate per se, I just thought it must have been out of date in light of the “obsolete” dependencies that (according to YaST, anyway).
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Reading installed packages...
'libavcodec52' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'libavcodec52'.
'ffmpeg' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'ffmpeg'.
'libdvdnav4' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'libdvdnav4'.
'libdvdread4' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'libdvdread4'.
'libffmpeg0' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'libffmpeg0'.
'libquicktime0' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'libquicktime0'.
'libxine1' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'libxine1'.
'libxine1-codecs' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'libxine1-codecs'.
'libxvidcore4' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'libxvidcore4'.
'smplayer' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'smplayer'.
'vlc' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'vlc'.
'w32codec-all' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'w32codec-all'.
'xine-ui' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'xine-ui'.
'xvidcore' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'xvidcore'.
Resolving package dependencies...
Nothing to do.
Everything appears to be in order. Sound works on everything but DVDs. Perhaps a sound issue and not a multimedia issue?
Everything appears to be in order. Sound works on everything but DVDs. Perhaps a sound issue and not a multimedia issue?
Perhaps. Have you tried all players with DVD’s. You don’t have to accept the option it pops up at you if any. Ignore that and open smplayer or kaffeine or vlc or … and so on
Each player is slightly different and you may get different results.
I tried all the players, and after some light troubleshooting, I discovered the problem. Evidently it is a good idea to turn the volume up if one wants to hear sound. :shame:
Though , the commands above should get you right.