HOWTO: Make DVD playback work with libdvdcss

Otto42 · #1 1st December 2008, 10:05 PM

Took some searching and reading to figure out the answer to this in a clean and easy way, but it's an easy enough thing to do, so I figured I'd post it up.

RPMFusion, great as it is and all, has one glaring omission. So, for the time being, Livna is still around to handle this issue.

Code:

su
rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/10/i386/livna-release-9-2.noarch.rpm
yum install libdvdcss

And voila, DVD playback works in VLC player again.

True, you could just install the libdvdcss RPM manually, but this keeps it all in the repos and such. And if RPMFusion ever does come to its senses, then this will presumably migrate nicely.

bee · #2 1st December 2008, 10:12 PM

thank you for your advanced hacker tip!!!

the next time i'll teach you how to download war-ez

bye!!

***bob*** · #3 1st December 2008, 10:20 PM

Bee, this may not be a 'how-to' that's up to YOUR level, but if you check, you'll find over 500 threads about the issue. Clearly, some members, perhaps new to Fedora, can use this info.

bee · #4 1st December 2008, 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob

Bee, this may not be a 'how-to' that's up to YOUR level, but if you check, you'll find over 500 threads about the issue. Clearly, some members, perhaps new to Fedora, can use this info.

Yeah honey bee bob!! i know you are right!!!
but i posted my message anyway, because i felt like it was so funny

i don't want to offend Otto42 or say something against his work!! but my post will sounds so funny for somebody

i can't resist to joking!

i couldn't avoid to post it!

Otto42: don't misunderstand my message, it wasn't to laugh at you (but to laugh with you

)

bye!!!

#5 26th February 2009, 01:46 AM

Since livna.org is down, where can I get a copy of libdvdcss package? Thank you!

#6 26th February 2009, 01:52 AM

I found a mirror: it resolves all the dependencies. RESOLVED.
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/repo/10/x86_64/

Marcelo Ramone · #7 26th June 2009, 12:24 AM

http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/rpm/

freddy1949 · #8 1st January 2010, 12:00 AM

marcelo
thanks champ

jonathonp · #9 8th January 2010, 11:51 PM

Updated to Fedora 14

You can find libdvdcss2 and libdvdcss at atrpms. You need to install libdvdcss2 first.
Open a terminal type:

Fedora 14 x86_64:

Code:

su
rpm -Uvh http://dl.atrpms.net/all/libdvdcss2-1.2.10-5.fc14.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://dl.atrpms.net/all/libdvdcss-1.2.10-5.fc14.x86_64.rpm

Fedora 14 x86:

Code:

su
rpm -Uvh http://dl.atrpms.net/all/libdvdcss2-1.2.10-5.fc14.i686.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://dl.atrpms.net/all/libdvdcss-1.2.10-5.fc14.i686.rpm

You could always install the atrpms repository but you may find conflicts with other packages from rpmfusion so it's best to disable it once you have installed it:
Fedora 14 x86_64:

Code:

su
rpm -Uvh http://dl.atrpms.net/all/atrpms-repo-14-3.fc14.x86_64.rpm

Fedora 14 x86:

Code:

su
rpm -Uvh http://dl.atrpms.net/all/atrpms-repo-14-3.fc14.i686.rpm

To disable the atrpms repository (recommended):

Code:

su
gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo

Change enable=1 to enable=0 to disable it.

To install packages with the atrpms repository disabled:

Code:

yum --enablerepo=atrpms install libdvdcss2 libdvdcss

matthewf500 · #10 3rd November 2010, 09:25 AM

Fresh install of Fedora 14 I used the following to get Movie Player to play dvds

In Terminal
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub...na-release.rpm'

downloaded libdvdcss from the following mirror http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/repo/14/x86_64/
install with archive manager

In Terminal
yum install libdvdcss

stoat · #11 4th November 2010, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matthewf500

Fresh install of Fedora 14 I used the following to get Movie Player to play dvds

In Terminal
su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub...na-release.rpm'

downloaded libdvdcss from the following mirror http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/repo/14/x86_64/
install with archive manager

In Terminal
yum install libdvdcss

Okay. Thanks. But just for the record, there doesn't seem to be much point in that first step which installs the livna repository if you then in the next step go to the ATrms repository to download libdvdcss for a manual installation in the last step. That one package is the only package that Livna maintains for us.

You know, I have decided to skip the livna repo installation with Fedora 14. I just installed libdvdcss from backups. It hasn't been updated in a long time anyway.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonathonp

You can find libdvdcss2 and libdvdcss at atrpms. You need to install libdvdcss2 first.

A late reply, but since matthewf500 already went first... According to rpm.pbone.net, the package libdvdcss2 provides libdvdcss2 and libdvdcss. So what you said does no harm probably, but the second step may not be necessary.

mistergoodbytes · #12 24th November 2010, 01:26 AM

By the way, Otto, thanks very much for this post, commentary from ijits notwithstanding. In fact I could not play DVDs in Fedora 14, I am relatively new to Linux, and this fixed me up.

stoat · #13 24th November 2010, 01:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mistergoodbytes

...commentary from ijits notwithstanding.

Well IMO, there was only one ijit above. And as you can see under his username, he eventually received his well-deserved reward. Everyone else above posted serious and sane replies intended to help readers.

papashou · #14 25th December 2010, 04:48 AM

It only took 2 years!

By the by, how can I confirm that I am using libdvdcss2 or some other dvd library for playback?

Hyperthinker · #15 7th January 2011, 05:28 AM

I found the information very useful!

Thankyou OP.

HT.