playing a dvd movie

paulfrottawa

paulfrottawa

Hello
I'm hoping to play a DVD movie on FreeBSD. I have one computer with an internal DVD drive. Second computer with a external DVD player connected by USB. The internal did play a disclaimer but wouldn't go further and now it won't do that anymore.
Please if you can watch DVD movies can you post your success?
 
If you want to avoid having the optical drive spinning all the time during playback you can use something like multimedia/dvdread in ports tree to rip the disc without converting it.
 
Hi, I can watch a DVD movie - just one! As all my other DVDs are region 2 (Europe/UK). Is this the same issue you have paulfrottawa? I'm wondering if multimedia/libdvdcss is my issue also? Is there a way to have my DVD device play region two or open region please anyone? I've just looked at libdvdcss and it says region doesn't need to be set.. though I can't seem to 'pkg install'. Being a noob to FreeBSD I haven't got round to doing a port yet. 🤗
 
Alexander88207 said:
You need to compile multimedia/libdvdcss from ports because its not allowed to be redistributed as the CSS code may violate the DMCA.
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Okay I've compiled/installed the libdvdcss port though maybe I'm missing something, as the DVDs still won't play in VLC. Do I need to do more with libdvdcss like modify some files or install with Pkg now? Any help greatly appreciated at this stage... :)
 
itdm5j21 said:
Okay I've compiled/installed the libdvdcss port though maybe I'm missing something, as the DVDs still won't play in VLC. Do I need to do more with libdvdcss like modify some files or install with Pkg now? Any help greatly appreciated at this stage... :)
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Solution:
I checked in the /usr/ports/multimedia/libdvdcss/work directory and found that that libdvdcss was put in to /usr/local and that wasn't in my $PATH. So...

code: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local

Voila! Solution it works DVDs play.
Many thanks all. :)
 
cracauer@ said:
I don't bother with playing them directly and use multimedia/makemkv.
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Thank you for the heads up on 'makekv' I have previously backed-up my CDs/DVDs and can watch them, pretty much, anytime anywhere. I guess as I'm new to FreeBSD I wanted to get the CD/DVD player working, rather than needing listen/watch discs directly. Never the less, I'm grateful for the info though. 👍
 
itdm5j21 said:
Solution:
I checked in the /usr/ports/multimedia/libdvdcss/work directory and found that that libdvdcss was put in to /usr/local and that wasn't in my $PATH. So...

code: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local

Voila! Solution it works DVDs play.
Many thanks all. :)
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as libdvdcss is an (so) file consider using the LD_LIBRARY_PATH var instead of PATH.
 
If it wasn't aalready default the correct way is
PATH to /usr/local/bin # not /usr/local
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib

But it is default anyway on FreeBSD.
 
cracauer@ & kent_dorfman766 thank you both. I'm running 14.3. I have checked my $PATH and /usr/local is not listed though /usr/local/sbin & /usr/local/bin are listed. So, I'm not sure how or what changed to get the dvd drive to play region 2 dvds. It appears I needn't add LD_LIBRARY_PATH /user/local/lib either? 🤔
 
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