[packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player

[Masaru Nomiya]

Hello,

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  Subject    : [packman] AMD Radeon 600 series, Leap 15.4, VLC DVD player
  Message-ID : <CALtYYowGebjxLQfoQpJ-xyjAcH-n0cYwgrhRQY-6rqQyv-QquQ at mail.gmail.com>
  Date & Time: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 21:00:35 +0200

[SS] == Steven Swart <steven.swart at gmail.com> has written:

[...]
SS>  This machine also has an HD BDROM drive that I sometimes used to play
SS>  regular DVDs with VLC. To do that under 15.3, all I had to do was install
SS>  the libdvdcss2 library. (I found a repo for that one.)

SS>  I have been down a big rabbit hole today trying to get VLC to play DVDs
SS>  under 15.4!

SS>  From what I understand, I need to install a package called mesa-vdpau. Then
SS>  I should be able to get it to work with the VDPAU drivers. (I would need to
SS>  set a couple of environment variables.)

SS>  However, from what I understand, support for this package has now been
SS>  dropped due to software patent concerns, and is no longer available for
SS>  Leap 15.4.

SS>  I have tried to play DVDs with both the packman and the flatpak versions of
SS>  Kodi, but no luck.

The cause of your problem is this;

  https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1006922#request-creation

SS> However, I note that on my other 15.4 machine, this way works fine
SS> with a standard DVD drive.

This is because you are using Mesa before codecs were disabled in your
another machine.

SS>  All I need is a way to play regular DVDs under Leap 15.4 on this machine
SS>  with an HD BDROM drive.

SS>  Does anyone have any suggestions?

The solution is to build Mesa yourself with codecs enabled, which is
not difficult.

Regards.

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