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Offline BananaBro69

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DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« on: October 07, 2026, 07:53:31 PM »
i’ve been having problems with the way TinyCore handles discs, and it bugs me alot.from what i’ve been experiencing so that you wanna know, i can mount DVDs and DVD Videos. But i can’t play DVDs. I don’t know if i’m just missing a codec that’s in the Repo, but i just can’t play DVDs. And it’s even worse for CDs, as i can’t even mount them without getting an I/O error. And i could play CDs…but that was when i didn’t have sound drivers. :-\ don’t even know if it was a coincidence or not.



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« Last Edit: October 07, 2026, 07:56:49 PM by BananaBro69 »

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2026, 08:52:20 PM »
Hi BananaBro69
Which version of Tinycore are you running?
If you don't know, run:
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versionin a terminal.
Did you read the  vlc.tcz.info  file?

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2026, 04:54:40 AM »
Hi BananaBro69
Which version of Tinycore are you running?
If you don't know, run:
Code: [Select]
versionin a terminal.
Did you read the  vlc.tcz.info  file?
CorePlus With TinyCore 17.1
Btw by vlc.tcz.info, you mean the info in the App manager right?

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2026, 08:37:13 AM »
Hi BananaBro69
... Btw by vlc.tcz.info, you mean the info in the App manager right?
Yes.

You could also try starting vlc from a terminal and see if any
warnings or errors pop up.

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2026, 08:09:50 AM »
Hi BananaBro69
... Btw by vlc.tcz.info, you mean the info in the App manager right?
Yes.

You could also try starting vlc from a terminal and see if any
warnings or errors pop up.
I did, and it said
“DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f50000. Regions: 2 4” before it gave up playing the DVD.
So maybe i have to find a way to get libdvdnav to read Region 2 and 4 discs, If thats possible.

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2026, 08:41:59 AM »
Hi BananaBro69
See if installing  libdvdcss.tcz  helps.

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2026, 09:15:46 AM »
Hi BananaBro69
Ignore my last post. I see  libdvdcss.tcz  is only in the
64 bit repositories, sorry.

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2026, 03:48:57 PM »
Hi BananaBro69
Ignore my last post. I see  libdvdcss.tcz  is only in the
64 bit repositories, sorry.
So i can’t play DVDs without having the 64-bit version?

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2026, 04:03:44 PM »
If you can wait a week or so, I can take a look.

Otherwise the build notes should be on the server.

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2026, 06:42:20 PM »
If you can wait a week or so, I can take a look.

Otherwise the build notes should be on the server.
Ok. But while i wait, can someone help me with the CD I/O mounting error with audio CDs?  ???
(Data CDs are normal.)

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2026, 12:49:03 AM »
Hi BananaBro69
Audio CDs don't contain a file system and can't be mounted.
If you want to listen to the CD, you need to use playing software.
If you want to extract tracks from the CD, you need to use ripping software.

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2026, 01:01:40 AM »
Hi BananaBro69
Audio CDs don't contain a file system and can't be mounted.
If you want to listen to the CD, you need to use playing software.
If you want to extract tracks from the CD, you need to use ripping software.
What software? I’ve tried to run rhythmbox, but it doesn’t even show a sign of it running.

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2026, 03:04:16 AM »
Hi
You could try like Rich says:
You could also try starting rhythmbox from a terminal and see if any
warnings or errors pop up.
« Last Edit: October 10, 2026, 03:06:57 AM by patrikg »

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Re: DVD will mount, but won’t play in VLC.
« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2026, 09:08:50 AM »
Hi
You could try like Rich says:
You could also try starting rhythmbox from a terminal and see if any
warnings or errors pop up.
Ignore my last post. i forgot to post an update about the Audio CDs, they work now.