How to play a commercial DVD movie

[Member greyowl]

I want to play commercial DVD movies on my laptop.
I tried GNOME MPV and mpv Media Player which came with the distribution but neither would play the DVD.
GNOME MPV says that it is an unrecognised file format.
mpv Media Player just quits when I try to open the files.
The files are VOB files.
Is there a better video player that will play commercial DVD movies? Ideally, it would be nice of the movies would just auto play when I put them in the DVD rom.

Thanks for the help.

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[Member sleekmason]

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Have you tried the package codecs-antix?

This is under applications –> system tools in my menu. I think it came pre-installed . .// It contains codecs for commercial dvd playback.

w64codecs may work as well. apt-get install w64codecs

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libdvdcss2 is the package you need. its thru the codecs installer

[Member greyowl]

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Thanks for the suggestions.
I installed “codecs installer” in System Tools. I restarted the laptop and tried the video players. mpv Media Player automatically played a 10 second clip (file Video_TS.VOB) and tried to process the other VOB clips and then quit. GNOME MPV played the 10 second clip (file Video_TS.VOB) and then said that the other VOB files were an unrecognised file format.

I tried sudo apt-get install w64codecs, but it was unable to locate the package.

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look for non-free codecs in the package installer under system in the Control Center.

[Member greyowl]

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dolphin_oracle wrote:

libdvdcss2 is the package you need. its thru the codecs installer

I installed libdvdcss2 through the codecs installer and also through the non-free codecs in the package installer under system in the Control Center.

I still get the same result as outlined above.

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Have you tried running the video app using a terminal command and reading the error messages to get a clue?

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If they are just normal DVDs, libdvdcss2 should be all that is needed to play .vob files, your player may only play one .vob at a time if you try playing them from a file manager. As Roky suggests, try running mpv from a terminal, feeding it all .vob files.

Something like this should work from the directory that they are in.
mpv *.vob

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fatmac wrote:

If they are just normal DVDs, libdvdcss2 should be all that is needed to play .vob files, your player may only play one .vob at a time if you try playing them from a file manager. As Roky suggests, try running mpv from a terminal, feeding it all .vob files.

Something like this should work from the directory that they are in.
mpv *.vob

Sorry for the delay. I had to work a couple of days.

Here is the result:

user@antix1:~
$ mpv /media/sr0/VIDEO_TS/*.VOB
Playing: /media/sr0/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB
 (+) Video --vid=1 (mpeg2video)
     Subs  --sid=1 (dvd_subtitle)
     Subs  --sid=2 (dvd_subtitle)
VO: [opengl] 720x480 => 853x480 yuv420p
V: 00:00:00 / 00:00:00 (19%)
Invalid video timestamp: 0.000000 -> 0.000000
V: 00:00:00 / 00:00:00 (39%)
Invalid video timestamp: 0.000000 -> 0.000000
V: 00:00:00 / 00:00:00 (95%) Dropped: 2

Playing: /media/sr0/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB
Failed to recognize file format.

<snip>
Repeat of same error message.

Exiting... (Some errors happened)
user@antix1:~
$

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That’s strange, it used to work for me with mplayer, & mpv is an updated version,
I can’t test it myself as I have no vob files anymore, (I ripped all my DVDs to mp4).

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All you should need to do is put in dvd, open mpv-gnome, click on the + sign, choose Open Location – Type /dev/sr0 (oer whatever is the location of your dvd drive) – Press enter.

For mpv, in a terminal simply type

mpv /dev/sr0

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anticapitalista wrote:

All you should need to do is put in dvd, open mpv-gnome, click on the + sign, choose Open Location – Type /dev/sr0 (oer whatever is the location of your dvd drive) – Press enter.

For mpv, in a terminal simply type

mpv /dev/sr0

Brilliant. The DVD movies work with both mpv and Gnome players. Thank you so much for the help.

I tried 14 DVD movies and 13 of them started immediately and played fine.
The one that had difficulty took about 1-2 minutes to start and then had difficulty fast forwarding and there were a lot of processing sounds from the DVD rom, but eventually it played OK. Below is the terminal on it which someone may be able to interpret:
user@antix1:~
$ mpv /dev/sr0
Playing: /dev/sr0
[ffmpeg/demuxer] mpeg: Invalid timestamps stream=0, pts=0, dts=1900678, size=40694
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
[ffmpeg/demuxer] mpeg: Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Audio: mp2, 0 channels, s16p): unspecified frame size
[ffmpeg/demuxer] Consider increasing the value for the ‘analyzeduration’ and ‘probesize’ options
[ffmpeg/demuxer] mpeg: Could not find codec parameters for stream 4 (Audio: ac3, 0 channels): unspecified sample format
[ffmpeg/demuxer] Consider increasing the value for the ‘analyzeduration’ and ‘probesize’ options
[ffmpeg/demuxer] mpeg: Could not find codec parameters for stream 5 (Audio: mp2, 0 channels): unspecified frame size
[ffmpeg/demuxer] Consider increasing the value for the ‘analyzeduration’ and ‘probesize’ options
(+) Video –vid=1 (mpeg2video)
(+) Audio –aid=1 (mp2)
Audio –aid=2 (ac3)
Audio –aid=3 (ac3)
Audio –aid=4 (mp2)
[ffmpeg/demuxer] mpeg: Invalid timestamps stream=0, pts=0, dts=1900678, size=40694
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
[ffmpeg/audio] mp2: Header missing
Error decoding audio.
VO: [opengl] 720×480 => 853×480 yuv420p
[lavf] Too many packets in the demuxer packet queues:
[lavf] audio/0: 0 packets, 0 bytes
[lavf] video/1: 16000 packets, 382811555 bytes
AV: 00:01:39 / 01:44:37 (1%) A-V: 0.000

Thank you

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