Can't play DVD from web page

tpcarmen · Postby **tpcarmen** » 07 Jan 2013 04:14

Neither of the embeds below do anything.

The drive doesn't spin up, there are no error messages nothing.

I'm trying to play a local DVD from the browser (in this case firefox on linux), however it also doesn't work in firefox on Windows 8. It doesn't matter which DVD or which machine.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks!

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<html>
<title>VLC Mozilla plugin test page</title>
<body>
<embed type="application/x-vlc-plugin" name="video1" autoplay="yes" loop="yes" width="400" height="300" target="/media/Atlantis/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO" />
<embed type="application/x-vlc-plugin" name="video1" autoplay="yes" loop="yes" width="400" height="300" target="/media/Atlantis/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_4.VOB" />       
</body>
</html>

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 07 Jan 2013 11:57

Try dvd:///media/Atlantis/VIDEO_TS/

tpcarmen · Postby **tpcarmen** » 07 Jan 2013 15:07

Try dvd:///media/Atlantis/VIDEO_TS/

That worked! Thanks you!

I've been working on this for days.

Terry

tpcarmen · Postby **tpcarmen** » 07 Jan 2013 15:31

Just a head's-up" for anybody else working on this problem, once I use the right syntax (thanks, Jean-Baptiste!) I found selinux was also causing problems.

You'll need to:
grep plugin-containe /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol

then:
semodule -i mypol.pp

to allow access to the DVD drive from Firefox (at least in Fedora).

Postby **Jean-Baptiste Kempf** » 07 Jan 2013 15:48

I don't use SElinux, because I believe it to be broken.

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