cannot play DVD's on Fedora 10 386

Ryan B. Lynch ryan.b.lynch at gmail.com
Sat Aug 29 20:07:35 UTC 2009


On 08/29/2009 04:00 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 13:12 -0600, Kevin Kempter wrote:
>   
>> Hi all;
>>
>> I'm setting up Fedora 10 (i386) on a new laptop for my son.
>>
>> I enabled the rpmfusion repos and did a full update. Then I enabled the linva 
>> repo and installed libdvdcss, xine-lib-extras and dependancies
>>
>> I did a chmod 755 on /dev/dvd
>> If we try and play a dvd we get this:
>>
>>
>> The source can't be read.
>>
>> Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't
>> contain data (e.g: no disc in drive). (Error reading NAV packet.)
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>     
> Is this a commercial DVD? If so, do you have the required codecs and
> libcss? Hint: if it's a fresh install and you didn't add the rpmfusion
> repo, that would explain it).
>   

If you read the poster's email, he notes pretty clearly that he
installed CSS via LIvna, already.  BTW, the package name is 'libdvdcss',
not 'libcss', and it's not in RPMFusion--it's still in Livna, because of
the legal issues.  (The poster noted both of these things.)

-Ryan





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