VLC won't play DVDs

[BePhantom]

I'm using haiku-pre-alpha-hrev30012-vm under Virtual Box in Ubuntu. I mount the DVD and open VLC 0.8.6c then click on Media>> Open Disc and nothing happens, VLC won't start playing. I already tried with an original DVD (CSS protected) and a back up DVD (unprotected) without any luck.

[emitrax]

That's because UDF is not yet in the image. Ticket #1856 keeps track of that.

[stippi]

I am not sure that that's the case. Pretty much all the DVDs should also have ISO9660 support for backwards compatibility. I also remember that I mounted DVDs in Haiku and could look at the files.

[axeld]

Indeed. I am not even sure VLC needs the disk to be mounted at all.

[anevilyak]

Replying to axeld:

Indeed. I am not even sure VLC needs the disk to be mounted at all.

It doesn't, for DVD it uses the raw device directly. Is it possible we're either missing or not correctly implementing an ioctl that vlc needs? strace should be able to confirm/refute that one pretty easily at least.

[modeenf]

VLC 0.8.6c works in Zeta so it's probably a problem with Haiku. How would a DVD made playable with our MediaPlayer, a media-addon?

[diver]

Is it still reproducible?

[cocobean]

Ref: ​https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/tree/a5483281a4bfe40acdfa69814d86a21ef26954ba/media-video/vlc

Tested on hrev52003: VLC 0.8.6i & VLC 2.2.8 no longer available and currently non-functional on Haiku. I can mount/read the a movie DVD properly and see the files on a movie DVD. Can use Mplayer.

Can close ticket as VLC not supported at this time.

[diver]

VLC can now play DVDs.