[libdvdcss-devel] Incompatible DVDs?

[Whitney]

Hi Jean-Baptiste,

Thanks for your response. Do you mean the VLC log, or is there a higher
level log for libdvdcss?

As I tried to check the VLC log, I discovered that libdvdcss IS working for
these discs. I previously tried to get VLC to play the discs by trying to
select the disc (as opposed to the device), but because Ubuntu wasn't
recognizing the discs there was nothing to select. This time I was using a
different computer that only has one drive, so I didn't have to select a
disc and just pressed play without changing the disc device. Turns out VLC
can play the disc just fine once it's pointed to the correct device, even
though Ubuntu believes that the disc is unreadable. Because VLC is reading
the disc fine, there is no error message. After VLC opened the disc, the
css keys were dumped into the appropriate folder as normal.

Therefore, I believe that the problem is that Ubuntu 16.04 is not properly
using libdvdcss for certain discs. I still have no idea why most discs work
and select others don't, but it is consistent which ones do and don't work.
This is still an inconvenience as any program that relies of selecting a
disc or folder rather than a device will not be able to see the disc,
unfortunately.

Sorry for the confusion about the source of the problem!



On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
wrote:

> On 08 May, Whitney wrote :
> > I'm happy to provide additional information and run tests/commands as
> > needed.
>
> Can you share the failing logs?
>
> With my kindest regards,
>
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> Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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