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Linux hello 3.16.0-4-586 #1 Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4 (2016-02-29) i686 GNU/Linux
I just want to watch The Crow. I tried mplayer2- no decoder. The decoder it wants is nowhere to be found- at least through apt. I then went through every player listed under "search dvd"- there are a few- and every last one of them- even vlc- came back with the same missing decoder. Here is the vlc:
chuck@hello:~$ vlc /dev/sr0
VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax) (revision 2.2.1-0-ga425c42)
[09d0bc60] pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused
[09ba30d0] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 5.0.1
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
************************************************
** **
** No css library available. See **
** /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/README.css **
** for more information. **
** **
************************************************
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f60000. Regions: 1 4
[09c29ed0] core input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
[09c29ed0] core input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
[09c29ed0] core input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
[09c29ed0] core input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called

So what I need that Jessie won't provide is libdvdcss.
And my two options are to: 1) Compile from the source code or 2) Use packages from derivatives that include libdvdcss.
I have no idea how to compile, and I know that the sid repos have it, but I don't want to mess up this install by mixing the two.
So, has anybody out there compiled this libdvdcss from Videolan.org?
Help?

Ok. I went to videolan. I added the repos to /etc/apt/sources.list, then I did the wget code to get ?. They then told me to "git clone http://git.videolan.org/git/libdvdcss.git" and I did that. then it cloned into 'libdvdcss' checked connectivity...done. No further instructions. Is it installed? I tried apt install and got this: Package libdvdcss is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source.
Oh. And it has no installation candidate. ??

You must have to do something else after you clone into libdvdcss. I don't use git so I don't know. Do you make? All I know is I still can't watch this dvd.

If there is not a package available, you will have to compile the program from source. You have already gotten the source code from git, so now you should change into the programs directory and run the following.

Try installing "libdvd-pkg" or "libdvdread4" (not sure what version there is in Jessie, use: "search libdvdcss")

I did a search before and after adding the repos. I did not see it last night, but after searching libdvdcss this morning, libdvdcss2 popped up! I know it wasn't there before!
I need coffee, smh. I installed, popped in The Crow (can't watch it now- break over) and it was Hollywood Magic.
The problem is, I have no idea what I did to make this happen.
Libdvdread4 I already had. I don't know which player I installed it for, tbh, but none of the players would even look at the dvd until I installed libdvdcss(2).
Now I can play The Crow on vlc, mplayer2, xine, gxine, and- if I can figure it out, I guess- gmerlin. Maybe a thread on favorite program to watch dvd's so I can dump most of these?
Thanks, guys! I guess we can call this one solved?

^Then edit first post. Add SOLVED to thread title please! :)

The best media players are vlc and mpv (mplayer2), in my opinion. VLC if you want to have some kind of GUI, mpv if you start the film from file manager or terminal anyway. Drop gmerlin and xine.

^ Absolutely.

Yes indeed!

Thanks! I didn't know what to do with all that craziness, lols. Vlc and mplayer it is, then :) And thanks @vic for reminding me about the adding the solved to the first post. I have never done that, and I should know better by now, :)