I’m having trouble playing a DVD on my HP laptop running Manjaro. Here are the steps I am following:
Connect the DVD player to the laptop and wait for it to mount.
Open VLC. Click on media, open disc.
I click the browse button and select the disc and hit play.
I get a pop up with the error:
Your input can’t be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘dvd:///run/media/ray/POIROT_SERIES_DISC1’. Check the log for details.
If I bring up VLC and let it default to the mount it defaults to and hit play I get:
Your input can’t be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘dvd:///dev/sr0’. Check the log for details.
Where are the log files?
Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?
I do have libdvdcss installed it looks like. It is version 1.4.3-2
As I’m one of the few who still have a dvd drive, I quickly tested and no issue here. So I wonder if you’re missing a vlc-plugin (now that they’re all separate) maybe install vlc-plugins-all, also you do belong to the optical group?
Haven’t played one in a long time, so here goes. Put DVD in Disks & Devices pops up and I select “Open with VLC media player” and I get the error “Your input can’t be opened” Open with Dolphin, select a random VOB file and it plays with VLC. Then I installed vlc-plugins-all SUCCESS!
You already have the answer, but I would like to add to it.
To see all the plugins and their installation status: pacman -Ss vlc-plugin
I didn’t go the all route at this time, but rather added these plugins after the latest update which included VLC split: sudo pacman -S vlc-plugin-dvd vlc-plugin-ffmpeg vlc-plugin-ogg vlc-plugin-x264 vlc-plugin-x265.
Here in Britain (and probably elsewhere) DVD and Blue Ray discs are available in vast numbers in charity shops and other second-hand shops for almost insanely low prices (I’ve paid as little as £0.10 for a DVD and £0.50 for a Blue Ray). Even for someone like me who isn’t particularly video-oriented it’s a good way to collect the relatively limited number of such discs that interest me. And with MakeMKV, ripping them to my hard drive is simple - with the advantage that I then don’t have to sit through all the rubbish the media companies insist on making viewers sit through.
That’s what I did at first, but with this post I see I can’t play DVD which I don’t do much at all, so I just did all. Who knows what codec/plugin I’ll want in the future.