On Lubuntu Artful Aardvark I have no problem with playing videos by making use of VLC 2.2.6. However I would like to use the built-in Chromecast option of the 3.0.1 version. I got it via the snap package management system. When I try to watch a DVD I get the following message:
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
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and the video does not play. When I go to that file it suggests to go here: https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
Here I found the following information: Our Debian/Ubuntu repository can be accessed by adding the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /
And by running
wget -O - http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/videolan-apt.asc | sudo apt-key add -
When I did that I can see a part of the opening menu screen of the DVD, but the view is already blocked by strange looking squares. I cannot change subtitles or anything, but I can start the movie, which also has this strange appearance and it stops after a few seconds. In the terminal tons of error messages are being thrown at me (still including the above error):
VLC media player 3.0.1 Vetinari (revision 3.0.1-4-g14a4897)
[0000000000ff93b0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
QApplication: invalid style override passed, ignoring it.
[0000000000ffc140] main playlist: playlist is empty
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 5.0.3
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
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libdvdnav: DVD Title: EN_101891
libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 3A686DC8___MVB__
libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative):
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fd0000. Regions: 2
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[00007f881c001ca0] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/gallium_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[00007f881c001ca0] glconv_vaapi_drm gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 1
libva error: va_getDriverName() failed with operation failed,driver_name=gallium
[00007f881c001ca0] glconv_vaapi_drm gl error: vaInitialize: operation failed
[00007f883c060630] avcodec decoder: Using G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0 for hardware decoding
[00007f883c060630] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented
[00007f883c037690] spudec decoder error: i_x overflowed, 739 > 720
[0000000001084af0] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
[00007f883c045d60] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[0000000001084af0] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
[00007f883c054a20] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[0000000001084af0] vlcpulse audio output error: digital pass-through stream connection failure: Not supported
[0000000001084af0] main audio output error: module not functional
[00007f883c054a20] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[00007f881c0dc930] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/gallium_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[00007f881c0dc930] glconv_vaapi_drm gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
libva info: VA-API version 0.39.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 1
libva error: va_getDriverName() failed with operation failed,driver_name=gallium
[00007f881c0dc930] glconv_vaapi_drm gl error: vaInitialize: operation failed
[00007f883c1a8b80] avcodec decoder: Using G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0 for hardware decoding
[mpeg2video @ 0x7f8824000da0] sequence header damaged
[mpeg2video @ 0x7f8824000da0] sequence header damaged
[mpeg2video @ 0x7f8824000da0] sequence header damaged
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
Note that the answers given on the page VLC won't play DVD movies did not solve the encryption issue, maybe because I am running another VLC version.
