What to use to play a VIDEO CD (not a VIDEO DVD) [SOLVED]

[ron_h]

LMDE4 Cinnamon 64bit

I came across a souvenir of a holiday in China about 10 years ago. It is a VIDEO CD (VCD). I know I played it back then, not sure if it was in a DVD player or in a Windows PC, I know it wasn't a Linux PC because I hadn't started using Linux then. I just tried to play it with VLC and got the following message

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Cannot play non-UDF mastered DVD

I welcome suggestions as to what player app to use or otherwise how to play it.

Ron

PS don't currently have a DVD player available, that's why I tried on the PC

[vimes666]

This should solve it:

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sudo apt-get install libdvd-pkg 

followed by

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg

Found here https://askubuntu.com/questions/505684/ ... dvd-movies and here https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html

[vanadium]

VLC should play that fine if you open the device. No need to install DVD decyphering, because that is not there on vcd.

[ron_h]

Thanks, vanadium

So simple, and it works, so long as I select VCD

Thanks, vimes666, I'll remember that as well if I have a problem in future

Ron

[ne0h]

VLC is the best for videos!!!
plays everything!