So when I stick a BluRay video in my drive, it reads it, no problem. Shows up as the name of the movie and everything. On the “Disks and Devices” applet in the task bar there’s a “Mount and Open” button and it works great. When I stick a DVD video in my drive, it hems and haws and eventually show…

You will need to install the RPM Fusion https://rpmfusion.org/ and add all the multimedia codecs.

Already done. Did it back when I was getting VLC to play all the h.264 and h.265 files in my library: $sudo dnf list –installed | grep rpmfusion ffmpeg.x86_64 7.1.2-7.fc43 rpmfusion-free ffmpeg-devel.x86_64 …

As you have libdvdcss already, i have no idea :slight_smile: You could try adifferent file manager such as Thunar.

Someone on Reddit suggested I try asking Claude AI and see what happens. After a LOT of back-and-forth and a lot of log-files, he (Claude AI, that is) thinks that the chip in my external USB drive-enclosure is blocking the SCSI decryption commands from libdvdcss. He said there’s a known Linux-inco…

Nope. That didn’t fix it. I had all but the dvdauthor package installed, so I installed dvdauthor and tried to play a DVD. Still no go. But thanks for the suggestion.

BTW, the enclosure was not the problem. New enclosure, same issue. Now Claude AI seems to think that maybe the “LibreDrive” firmware (obtained from MakeMKV) I flashed on my drive several years ago might be the issue? Who knows… I’m open to any ideas…

are you using the rpm or flatpak version of VLC? the installed libdvdcss will work only with the rpm version. Flatpak version will need its own libdvdcss (it may be already included in the flatpak, I don’t know)

I finally managed to downgrade the firmware in the drive. No go. I still can’t read DVDs. BluRays read just fine. This drive on this computer will not read DVDs. This drive on any other computer I own will read DVDs. What. The. Actual. Fvck?! This is really starting to piss me off. Would …

Fedora 43. I can read BluRays but I can't read DVDs?! I DO have libdvdcss installed from rpmfusion

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