The one thing I forgot to mention is the player requires the blueray
device to be mounted before it can see it and the contents. That
requirement is now giving me grief which I have articulated in another
thread.
Likewise with DVDs. They're a disc with files on it, that are read as
a file, so they need to be mounted.
Compact audio discs, on the other hand, are not. It's a bitstream, and
the player just has to find the right part to start playing from (what
the TOC provides as to how far into the disc).
Of course a DVD/Bluray player could do its own tricks at looking at the
optical device it normally uses, and if it isn't mounted trigger a
mount, then try dealing with it. But that seems like a lot of faffing
around, the usual behaviour for inserting a disc is that the desktop
automounts it.
Another gotcha can be a hybrid disc, where it's not just dual-layer,
but the different layers are different things (e.g. one's a DVD,
another's a bluray, or audio disc). My standalone bluray has options
to handle that.
Sorry, when I said the player requires the device to be mounted I was
referring to the Blueray player software. When I put the disc into
the device I get a prompt from Fedora as to what I want to do with
the device, which relative to mounting the device seems to only offer
"Mount and Open". If I ignore the prompt or just close it the device
is not mounted and the Blueray Player Software can't see the device
to search for playable media, hence the warning that the device must
be mounted to be able to play the media, and, that is via the
software's "Open Disc" mechanism, not "Open File" or "Open Folder".
I'm trying to use the Laewo Player software as VLC won't play the
Bluerays under both Fedora and Windows 11, whereas the Laewo Player
plays the Blueray discs quite happily under Windows. Under Wine it
seems to have buffer lags (the video stops playing while the buffer
is refreshed to play the next bit) which I'm trying to figure out.
regards,
Thank-you Stephen and Tim.
I found issues with the archlinux web page about this. I spent a lot
of time trying to figure it all out. The page never states the value
of the environment variable XDG_CONFIG_DIR. The reader must gather
that from context. There are 4 possibilities:
"/etc/xdg"
"/etc/cdg/aacs"
$HOME/.config"
$HOME/.config/aacs"
It was quite a bit of work trying all possibilities. None worked.
I spent a bunch of time looking up wine. Today, I did finally install
it. Wow! 300GB! That's big. And now my desktop is drunk. (just
kidding)
I cannot find "Laewo".
I have never used wine. If I had found Laewo, how would I install it?
I have the file downloads under Windows and having the Windows partition
mounted via Dolphin the command to install Laewo under Wine is wine
"/run/media/<userid>/Windows Drive E/Downloads/Laewo Blueray
Player/online_blurayplayer_setup.exe" which will then install the player
under wine and also add an icon to run it to the Fedora desktop. I have
noticed that playing the Blueray Movie pauses the playing frequently to
load the next bit of the movie to play the next bit, which I'm assuming
is due to buffering, which I haven't resolved yet. This sort of issue
doesn't happen when playing the same movie through that player in Windows.
regards,
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