[Help] Trouble Playing DVDs (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by LanceUppercut@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[-] LanceUppercut@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It says:

Playback failure: DVDRead could not read 1/4 blocks at 0x01

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hmm assuming the disk isn't super scratched up, I'm thinking you need to configure the region correctly.

I think if it was a decryption error, you'd have something different to a read error on what looks like one of the first blocks.

I remember there's a cli utility for setting the region that you should be able to get from your package manager, I can't remember the name off the top of my head

Edit: reread your post, regionset rings a bell actually. If it's not available in your package manager, perhaps try building it from source

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