Hello everyone, I am new to Manjaro and to this forum. So far everything’s fine, but I am not able to play encryted DVDs. Heres some background on the problem itself and on my computer and the software I’m using.
I ran opensuse Leap on my machine for the past two years without any troubles watching DVDs. A few days ago I replaced it to try something new. So I installed Manjaro.
Since I didn’t change any hardware I can’t see no reason, why it should’nt be possible to play encrypted DVDs with Manjaro.
Does anybody have an idea what’s wrong?
I’m running the following:
Manjaro 20.2
Kernel 5.8.18-1
XFCE 4.14
A check for the running X-Server delivers:
[carsten@carsten-pc ~]$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11
I am using a GeForce GT 710 graphics card, as confirmed (amongst a lot of other information) by using lspci:
[carsten@carsten-pc ~]$ lspci
22:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)
A check for the essential codecs needed for playing DVDs produced the following outputs:
[carsten@carsten-pc ~]$ pacman -Qi libdvdcss
Name : libdvdcss
Version : 1.4.2-2
[carsten@carsten-pc ~]$ pacman -Qi libdvdread
Name : libdvdread
Version : 6.1.1-1
[carsten@carsten-pc ~]$ pacman -Qi libdvdnav
Name : libdvdnav
Version : 6.1.0-2
A check if my user is in the optical group reveals, that this is true:
[carsten@carsten-pc ~]$ groups
sys network power optical lp audio wheel carsten
A check of the region-code delivered this:
[carsten@carsten-pc ~]$ regionset /dev/sr0
Current drive parameters for /dev/sr0:
RPC Type: Phase II (Hardware)
RPC Status: active region code (bitmask=0xFD)
Drive plays discs from this region(s): 2
Vendor may reset the RPC 4 times
User is allowed change the region setting 4 times
I tried a James Bond movie and a german movie, both DVDs explicitly made for DVD region 2, so there should be no problem with the region code.
DVDs were tested with the following 2 programs:
VLC 3.0.11.1
Kodi 18.9.0
Both programs play the sound properly, but Kodi shows no visual at all whereas VLC shows colored geometrical structures with no resemblance to the movie.
I did some google-research about problems with DVDs but up to now haven’t read any posts that are not covered by the parameters listed above.
A few years ago I ran into similar problems (on an Ubuntu-based distro if I remember correctly) and was able to solve it by installing libdvdcss2 (an advanced version of libdvdcss, or so I thought at the time). However, such a package seems not to be available in the Manjaro repositories. I also checked AUR, with the same result.
Does anybody have an idea what I can try to solve this issue?