OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Multimedia
VLC - does it play disks?
Eugene Tucker:
David, I only p;ay CDs and I use Panorama with the video procesor on my AMD chip. I am running the setupp CSM as well.
Dave Yeo:
--- Quote from: David McKenna on November 11, 2023, 06:59:22 pm ---Thanks Dave, I kinda thought that might be the case for Blu-Ray. There is no \Home\.dvdcss directory - maybe I'll try adding it. Do you have a video card, or use the embedded video in the processor? SNAP or Panorama? How about do you use OS2AHCI for the DVD drive? Looking for what may be different here...
Regards,
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I've used both SNAP and Panorama using the embedded video and lately OS2AHCI for the DVD drive.
You could also test with MPlayer or better, Smplayer set to use MPlayer. It's Qt4, I have a newer build I've been meaning to test better and also tried building it with Qt5, the Qt5 one crashed.
David McKenna:
Hey Dave,
MPlayer doesn't work either with encrypted disks here, but unencrypted work fine (CD's and DVD's, not Blu-Ray). In VLC I get this message in the messages window when trying to open an encrypted DVD disc:
dvdnav info: DVD Title: SLAUGHTER
dvdnav info: DVD Serial Number: 306f9d55
dvdnav info: DVD Title (Alternative):
dvdnav info: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions: 01
dvdnav info: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
dvdnav info: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient
and it sits forever (well, about an hour before I close it). It seems it doesn't get the 'CSS keys'. No idea where they come from...
BTW - I'm using a newer version 3.0.20: https://github.com/komh/vlc-os2/releases/tag/3.0.20
Regards,
Dave Yeo:
It is supposed to crack the CSS keys, it can take minutes. I see a reference to region 1, is your DVD player region locked and you're attempting to play a different region? Used to be a big thing, region locking. It's been a long time but it seems there were tricks to work around the region locking, though I think there were also limits. My computer DVD players have been region unlocked as far as I know.
David McKenna:
Dave,
The player is region 1, as are all my disks. It was originally unlocked, and didn't work then either. KoMH suggested to change it to a region, but that obviously didn't help.
Regards,
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