VLC troubleshoot (title changed)
all the online searches return gaming related results. I just want a windows program (Not a game) to be able to see and read a blu-ray drive. the drive mounts in bazzite just fine.
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What program are you trying to get to read from the optical drive?
If youre using a regular Windows program, you should be able to mount the blu-ray drive to regular bazzite and access data from there by navigating to the mount points?
A ripper that I use as a player, I've been unable to to setup VLC for the task
The program is hard coded to look for the drive as via the Windows folder system (D:/ specifically)
What program are you trying to run?
VideoSolo BD-DVD Ripper
Consider MakeMKV instead
Itβs platform agnostic and has a Flatpak
I'm trying to use it as a player not a ripper. Sense i've already paid for it I kinda like to continue using it.
Oh
Unfortunately I canβt help much here then, at least what I know so far.
Sorry mate
Thanks for the suggestion tho
Np
Blu-Ray playback with VLC is possible but tricky, try downloading a keydb.cfg from http://fvonline-db.bplaced.net/ and place it in /home/[username]/.config/aacs/ that should enable you to play most blu-rays, unless they're encoded with BD+, menus will probably not work though unless you layer Java
you might need to give VLC Flatpak access to this directory
I'll give that link a shot. I tried many tutorials and keydb links but was not yet able to get VLC running right.
Is there a tutorial link for giving the VLC flat pack access?
your browser will probably warn you that the website isn't safe, but I've installed keydb.cfg myself and my system didn't blow up π
hang on, let me try this, last time I did it was with a mutable distro
I tried that keydb file already. I must have something else messed up
did you give VLC access to the directory
Not sure, how would I check.
flatseal
looks like the flatpak is busted? trying in a distrobox container nowβ¦
I appreciate you checking, I won't be to try anything till after work.
bd_info tells me that AACS has been handled, but VLC either hangs completely or tells me it can't decrypt the disc π
That's the same issue I have, thus trying to get the windows program working. It amazes me that PCs still don't have access to good blue ray players. On any platform
not sure what I'm doing wrong⦠i installed both VLC and makemkv in the same distrobox in the hope that they would see each other to help decrypt⦠but it's still not working
the distrobox VLC just uses exponentially more memory and eventually crashes my PC
Mkv's flat pack worked correctly when I tried it. Just at the time I was looking for a playing function over a ripping function.
makemkv can also decode blu-rays for players, but i've never gotten it to functiion at all
ok, some progress
i put the KEYDB.cfg into a different folder
Solution
/home/[username]/.var/app/org.videolan.VLC/config/aacs/
and I could successfully open a BD with the flatpak ver of VLC
Awesome, I'll give that a shot when I get home
some of them still do not open though
seems almost random
make sure to install this addon for VLC from Bazaar for blu-ray menu support
Will do, this nice part of that windows ripper was it formatted the previews like a MP4 output before ripping so I could just click play and it would go straight to the feature. (Had a drop down box for language)
hmmmm, after a restart the blu-ray that didn't play before now plays
in Kubuntu this worked better ngl
the movie industry is extremely protective of its assets, after the DVD encryption was broken so easily they invented AACS and BD+ and I'm assuming that they don't want people to reverse engineer this so the encryption is valid for as long as possible
for this reason VLC cannot ship the keys required to decrypt blu-ray disks, because it's free and open and you have to download them from some dodgy website
but this creates a bit of a problem for Linux people who want to play their (legally purchased!) disks
i just ripped all my blu-ray disks and put them into Plex so I can watch them on every device
(with makeMKV, and re-encoding was done with Handbrake, both of which have Native Linux versions)
Yea, I would pay for a legitimate player if I could. The El cheapo players don't have connections for my 5.1 sounds system and their software is so slow. I haven't tried any of the $200+ players but I'd be afraid they would have the same slow to respond software.
Honestly, I would just make a windows VM, pass the drive in itβs entirety to the VM
I've never done a VM but I'll give it a try
So i tried your VLC recomendations with key file location and flatseal, i still get these errors.
Missing AACS configuration file!
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'bluray:///dev/sr0'. Check the log for det
guess i'll be teaching myself vms next
so, i renamed keydb to KEYDB and i get a new error AACS Host certificate revoked.
oh dear
well got curious and tried a different disc. guess the steelbook release of the fifth element is too new? the other disc played fine. Stella thanks for all the help. i'll delete this topic a bit later
Keep this active for future reference
should i change the title then? its more of a vlc troubleshoot than anything else.
Up to you