[AndersG]

This is something I needed to test as it does not work on Kodi 19.x.

I set up a machine for testing. Tested with av Asus BW-16DHT Bly-Ray DVD. Connected to a HP 6000 PC either through SATA or via a SATA to USB adapter.
Did a clean install of Debian 11.6.0 and installed 20.0 RC2 from flatpak

This combo plays the DVDs fine. Only snag is that ejecting the DVD from Kodi hangs Kodi. Does not matter is I try playing it first.

Crash log: https://paste.kodi.tv/vinedivanu.kodi

[enen92]

############### STACK TRACE #################
gdb not installed, can't get stack trace.
############# END STACK TRACE ###############

Your log file is not really useful

[AndersG]

OK. Thanks! So I should install gdb and try again?

[AndersG]

https://paste.kodi.tv/ecivipogub.kodi

After I installed gdb

[AndersG]

Does not help though. gdb is installed but the crash log says it is not.

 gdb --version
GNU gdb (Debian 10.1-1.7) 10.1.90.20210103-git
Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
 

[User 476552]

Some general information that may provide some context to this, there seems to be some specific problems regarding wayland, flatpak and kodi (in general) and that may be the avenue to pursue to find an actionable solution for this.

[AndersG]

OK. Thanks! I am still confused, but on a higher level I started investigating this when I had issues playing some DVDs on OSMC, a Kodi-derivative. The OSMC folks said it was a Kodi issue and needed to be fixed there. So, since the rest of the family do not particularily appreciate me mucking with their TV....... I set up a decicated box to test this and yes, the issue (not being to play) was still there in Kodi 19.x (tested several), but on 20.0 RC2 the DVDs played just fine. All that remained was the eject issue. This is not really a big deal for me, but I thought I'd report it here and offer to test if I can.

I do development (mainly Windows and microcontrollers and some Linux stuff) for a living, but I am not intimately familiar with the Innards of Kodi so please take that into consideration.

Should I try the Kodi nightly builds instead? Or should I just leave this and wait for the next RC?

[AndersG]

Let me just add: This is NOT a region issue. Libcss2 can play DVDs, regardless of region. Not that this matters to me as all my DVDs are either region-free or region 2. Just mentioning this as the blanket answer to any DVD issue seems to be "regions"

See: https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html

[enen92]

I'd try to check if the issue also happens outside of flatpak version. Iirc Kodi 20 is on Debian unstable with a couple of fixes for libdvd* - @basilgello might be able to help you better

[AndersG]

Problem was that wen I tried installing on Debian, I ended up with version 19.1 no matter what so if anyone can procide me with instructions how to install 20.0 on debian 11.6 then I would appreciate it. Also tell me if I should do a fresh install of debian first.

[User 476552]

Kodi 20 rc2 is on the Debian 11 sid repo which I could not recommend installing on top of any other branch due to cross dependencies between the systems.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/kodi

Debian sid is the Unstable branch and will come with potential bugs that you as a user will have to accept are possible if you run it.

More Info: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable

The choice, obviously, is entirely up to you.

**EDIT

Also appears to be on bookworm: https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm

[basilgello]

Here you have deb packages I built for bullseye: https://transfer.sh/GjXidT/dvdtest-bullseye.tar

[AndersG]

Thanks all ! Will test during the week!

[basilgello]

Just make sure to download the tarball today as the file hosting keeps it for 3 days

[AndersG]

I apologise for being a debian noob, but I downloaded, extracted and then dpkg -i *.deb



dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable
dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable
dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable
Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin