I installed Fedora 28 using the iso file. DVDs do play movies using Videos app. I installed the following, but I’m not sure what is actually necessary:
Shouldn’t do this as there’s no way to support it, you end up basically having a rouge program on your system you need to either manually maintain or forget exists and it ends up breaking something.
I had to reload my OS for reasons I won’t discuss, but I had to install additional packages beyond what you list. They are:
GStreamer Multimedia Codecs - libav
GStreamer Multimedia Codecs - Non Free
libmpeg2
Thanks for steering me in the right direction though.
VLC is a fine alternative, The packages listed above are just good if you want coverage for any application that uses the system gstreamer for stuff.
negativo17 is a fairly well known repo for Fedora now and does a good job with the packages it maintains. (mainly the multimedia and nvidia packages). the key here is it maintains them. Installing single packages from a download is bad practice, you lose support, and you cant keep track of it. It should never be recommended to a user.
For drivers rpmfusion is still the prefered repo by Fedora, and has support for one lick install nvidia drivers using their repo enabled via gnome software (also chrome, and steam).
Yes, I agree, in general. But ye gotta get libdvdcss somewhere… Equals the “problems” with proprietary rules on software… Thank you for your advice, but I will continue to go with vlc and get libdvdcss from reliable sources (from my experience alone)… Maybe I’ll try negativo17 one of these days, though. Thank you.