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I have a powdered USB 3.0 Hub running an external optical drive. The Pi can see the drive, and open all the files. In fact, when it offers to launch VLC automatically. However, nothing happens in VLC. You can hit play and the screen blinks and nothing happens. No error code. Just a black screen. Attempting to open disc from VLC does the same thing. My VLC is updated as of May 4th, 2020. I though all the needed codecs should be in VLC. Is there some kind of DRM blocking this? These are legitimately purchased video DVDs from a major retailer in the USA.

homopratensis
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I finally made some progress with this headache. Try "priming" your usb DVD Player. Plug it into Windows/A known good DVD playing computer and launch a DVD. I found a post that says some usb DVD players need to have the region code set at first launch. So once I played a DVD off my Windows laptop and plugged it back into my Pi, it worked like a charm! Only issue now is I have no video and choppy af audio :facepalm:

Konner Smith
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