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

[Steven Swart]

Good day, Masaru, and Packmans!

Thank you very much for this information!

I had tried all of Felix's suggestions, and a few other things besides, but
no luck. Then I got sidetracked onto something else.

I was just about to write a long post with my findings, but you have saved
me the trouble.

There is a limit to how much more time I can afford to spend on this today,
I have several urgent items I need to attend to before next week.

I still think it's worth writing a HOWTO and posting it on the OpenSUSE
hardware forums, it may save others from wasting a lot of their time. I
will try to do that at some stage.

Regards,
Steven.

On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 at 11:06, Masaru Nomiya <nomiya at galaxy.dti.ne.jp> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In the Message;
>
>   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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