I’ve installed a fresh Fedora 41 system because it failed to upgrade (I’ve kept my user home directory from the previous installation, since Fedora 35). I’ve installed libdvdcss and when I want to play a DVD (with VLC) it freezes on:
[00007f286c001500] dvdnav demux: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
[00007f286c001500] dvdnav demux: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient
It’s been more than an hour, it should take a few minutes to decode the DVD (or even faster on a modern computer). The disk is not damaged because I was able to create an iso file with mkisofs.
I’ve tried to install multimedia group, but everything was already installed.
I didn’t find any information about configuration of CSS. Did I miss something?
Quite likely something that has carried over from one of the earlier versions of an app is causing the problem. There are many different hidden files and directories under your user home directory that contain config info for the apps and as apps are updated sometimes the configs already in place may not work.
On my system I find both ~/.local/vlc and ~/.config/vlc
I would guess that if you remove both those directories and their content that the next time vlc is started it will work again. The app creates those for you.