Fedora - Enable the Playing of DVDs
Playing DVDs on Fedora does not work out of the box, the key component, libdvdcss, is not provided by the main Fedora repositories.
How to achieve this changed between 35 and 38, I believe the two sets of instructions below satisfy 35 alone and 36, 37 and 38 together. (38 is the latest at time of writing).
35
Add the required repositories
sudo dnf install rpmfusion-free-release rpmfusion-free-release-tainted
38 (and probably 36 and 37)
Add the required repositories
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install rpmfusion-free-release-tainted
Common steps
Install libdvdcss
sudo dnf install libdvdcss
Install a player of your choice
eg vlc
sudo dnf install vlc
... and you are done.
References
My Projects
Software and Debian packaging sources can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/m-grant-prg
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