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. :)
 
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