VLC unable to open MRL

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Hello,

I am fairly new Linux and EndeavorOS but have been tinkering with it on and off for a few weeks. I am currently trying to get VLC to play a DVD but it is giving me this error:

Your input can’t be opened:

VLC is unable to open the MRL ‘dvd:///dev/sr0’. Check the log for details.

I tried running VLC from the terminal and got this response:

[000056474f8e3230] main playlist: playlist is empty
[000056474f9471b0] main interface error: option cd-audio does not exist
Non-native QFileDialog supports only local files
Non-native QFileDialog supports only local files
Non-native QFileDialog supports only local files

I am not sure what this means, I tried searching on the internet and tried downloading the various libraries but it said that they were already installed. I am not sure what else to do now.

Thanks in advance!

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Welcome to the forums, @Penguin_In_The_Stars!

You haven’t told us which libraries you tried to install. For example, have you tried the following?

sudo pacman -S libcdio

Also, you might find this information most useful:

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It used to be that all VLC plugins were installed by default. Recently, Archlinux decided to install only the most common VLC plugins by default, then the user can decide what other plugins are needed. So you are probably lacking the DVD plugin.

To install it try running

sudo pacman -Syu vlc-plugins-all

which will install ALL plugins. The other option is to determine which plugin is missing
and only install that plugin.

HTH

Pudge

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I installed these:

libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdnav

I thought those were the plugins that were missing and forgot it was All the plugins like your article suggested. Thanks for the help!

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I personally would go this route.

When I did install the -all package I had a metric sh**-ton of KDE packages. I’m not running KDE

2 cents

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Yep, those were the things I was looking for. That was a LOT of packages though LOL! Thanks for the help!

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I first uninstalled all vlc plugins.
It said Total Removed Size: 102.32 MiB
Then I reinstalled ALL plugins and it said

Package (73)
Total Installed Size:  102.32 MiB

With the huge SSDs and NVMEs available today, I didn’t think picking through 102.32 MiB to save a few MB on a 500 GiB drive was worth the effort. I’ll take 73 Packages and 103 MB and now be ready for anything VLC can do.

Pudge

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