How to enable encrypted DVD playback on Fedora 25
Playing a DVD on Fedora 25 is not too difficult. I already had the extra repositories added to enable multimedia playback support, but I could not play a DVD. So I downloaded the libdvdcss library.
http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.4.0/.
Then I built and installed it.
darkstar% tar -xvf libdvdcss-1.4.0.tar.bz2 |
darkstar% cd libdvdcss-1.4.0 |
darkstar% ./configure |
darkstar% make |
[root@darkstar libdvdcss-1.4.0]# make install |
Then I had to add the /usr/local/bin directory to the ld.so.conf file in /etc.
[root@darkstar etc]# cat ld.so.conf include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf /usr/local/lib |
Then run the ldconfig command to tell the system about the changes.
[root@darkstar etc]# ldconfig |
Then DVD playback should work fine on your Fedora system. This will also be true for an Ubuntu system. Install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package and then follow the steps above to get encrypted DVD playback working.
There is also an RPM file available. Just download this RPM.
Then open a terminal and switch to root, and then type this command.
dnf install Downloads/libdvdcss-1.4.0-2.fc25.x86_64.rpm |
This will install the RPM file and the libdvdcss library will be installed.
Like this.
[root@localhost jason]# dnf install Downloads/libdvdcss-1.4.0-2.fc25.x86_64.rpm Fedora 25 - x86_64 - Updates 619 kB/s | 23 MB 00:38 RPM Fusion for Fedora 25 - Free - Updates 630 kB/s | 276 kB 00:00 Paper Project (Fedora_25) 159 kB/s | 151 kB 00:00 Fedora (Fedora_25) 23 kB/s | 39 kB 00:01 Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:03 ago on Mon Jun 5 09:04:13 2017. Dependencies resolved. ========================================================================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ========================================================================================================================================================================= Installing: libdvdcss x86_64 1.4.0-2.fc25 @commandline 69 k Transaction Summary ========================================================================================================================================================================= Install 1 Package Total size: 69 k Installed size: 173 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Installing : libdvdcss-1.4.0-2.fc25.x86_64 1/1 Verifying : libdvdcss-1.4.0-2.fc25.x86_64 1/1 Installed: libdvdcss.x86_64 1.4.0-2.fc25 Complete! |
More RPM files here.
https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libdvdcss.
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much – your instructions were very clear and spot on!
Regards
Shelton
Would be great if you explained how to do it for noobs. I don’t know how to “make” a thing. HI don’t even know what to do with the file you suggest to DL.
This is a little too advanced. I’ve gotten DVDs to play before and I knew less than I know now.
Worked perfectly, thx!
Thank you.