(responding to multiple posts)
On 1/19/26 2:25 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
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?
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