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VLC media player fails to play most DVDs

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Triophile:
OK, checked the link, and it's all pretty much Greek to me. Anybody fancy adding the file to the TC repository so I can get it that way :-) ?

Yours cheekily, Jon.

coreplayer2:
You have to compile the library yourself which is relatively easy, then all DVDs will play in any player.
Liability reasons will probably keep it out of the repository.

Triophile:
OK, thanks for that. I'll do a bit of reading and give it a crack.

Cheers, Jon.

Triophile:
I just wanted to check that the following link explains the compilation and installation instructions correctly before I go ahead and start the process:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html

Hopefully, the information there is correct, in which case, I'm pleasantly surprised by how easy the process is.

Cheers, Jon.

coreplayer2:
when finished compiling you should have these files shown in the picture.  Then you will need to make an extension to load at boot.  Make as shown in the picture and you should be good to go.  see the wiki for instructions on the extension.   

You'll need at least compiletc and squashfs-tools and (linux headers)?  extensions installed to make all the above compiling and extension creation happen.




http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:creating_extensions  see creating a tcz

basically
(make the hierarchy of directories to drop your files into as required be the file system)

mkdir -p /tmp/pkg/usr/local/lib 

(copy all five files into lib directory as shown above then set owner and permissions)

(make tcz)
open a terminal at tmp and enter these two commands at the command line

sudo mksquashfs pkg/ libdvdcss.tcz

sudo chown tc:staff libdvdcss.tcz


then copy your new extension to tce/optional directory and use AppsAudit to place in the onboot list
ps also save a copy to a safe place

reboot and make popcorn

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