Last week I published a blog and video of watching a DVD in Raspbian using omxplayer. At that time, as far as I could make out, nobody had managed to watch a commercial encrypted DVD, with the DVD drive attached to the Pi, but I figured it was only a matter of time. I ended that blog with…

There is a way to watch encrypted DVDs in linux, but I haven’t sorted it out on my Pi yet. Hopefully a future video will detail that process.

Well, I tried a few different things but was unable to get it working. However, one of the forum members, mikerr, has come up with a creative way to get the job done. This is the thread mikerr started, here.

Basically, you install mplayer, compile and install the libdvdcss decryption library and then set up a video stream in the background, which you then view with omxplayer. It puts all the elements together in a way that works on the Raspberry Pi. :)

So now I’m going to show you how it’s done…

Starting Point

I started with a freshly flashed SD card containing the August release of Raspbian, then fully updated/upgraded it.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade (This takes a little while ~15 mins)

Then install mplayer, which handles the decryption and streaming for us…
I did the whole install starting from /home/pi

Microsoft visio 2010 free download with crack torrent. cd /home/pi
sudo apt-get install mplayer
Y (to confirm)

Compiling libdvdcss

wget http://www.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.12/libdvdcss-1.2.12.tar.bz2 (download the zipped archive)
bunzip2 libdvdcss-1.2.12.tar.bz2 (unzip the archive)
tar -xvf libdvdcss-1.2.12.tar (unarchive the files)

cd libdvdcss-1.2.12 (change to the libdvdcss directory)
./configure (run the configuration)
make (compile libdvdcss)
sudo make install (install the compiled files)

sudo cp /usr/local/lib/libdvdcss* /lib (copy the installed files to /lib)

Streaming a DVD

For reasons that I don’t understand, this works for me when I use ssh for the last two commands and not if I do it from the keyboard attached to the Pi. I’m sure someone could figure this out, but not me. ;)

mkfifo /tmp/dvdpipe

Then I ssh into the Pi to execute the next two commands…

mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile /tmp/dvdpipe 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null </dev/null & (sets up the stream)

omxplayer -o hdmi -r /tmp/dvdpipe (uses omxplayer to view the stream)

That’s the quick and dirty instructional. I’ll see if I can make a video tomorrow. :)