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?
Thanks for the tips, everyone, but I’m going to have to conclude there is something wrong with the drive. Regionset can’t read or set the region code. I’ll have to try a different device.
Did you install ‘libdvdcss2’ ?
And here I thought that was just a T-shirt 😜
On which OS and version are you?
I’m on cachyOS.
From a forum: “If you do not want to be bothered to figured out which you might need exactly then you could always install
vlc-plugins-base,vlc-plugins-extraor justvlc-plugins-allwhich would of course simply install all of them.”