Not having libdvdcss in the flatpak sandbox would probably be the culprit. I just tried installing the flatpak myself to see if I could figure out how to make handbrake aware of the dvdcss library and immediately remembered why I got rid of any and all flatpak stuff on my system. It wanted to download a gigabyte of support flatpak crap to go along with the handbrake install. That might be fine if I was going to use a ton of flatpaked stuff, but it's seems rather excessive for the one or 2 flatpaks I've ever come across that I might want.
...so it didn't get installed. I'll find a different way to get the latest version on my system.

Brian Cluff

On 9/4/21 2:50 PM, Steve B wrote:

I uninstalled the Flatpak version and installed an older Deb package and now everything is working again.

Could it be that libdvdcss is not part of the Flatpak version, or that the Flatpak technology is unable to access libdvdcss outside of it's sandbox?
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 10:08 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Sounds like you are missing libdvdcss available from:
https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html

Without that installed the system has no way to decrypt your DVDs so they will appear pixelated

Brian Cluff

On 8/31/21 8:07 PM, Steve B via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Recently I reinstalled Handbrake to Linux (Pop OS) hoping to start ripping DVDs again. Previously it was a deb package but it appears Handbrake has moved to Flatpak for Linux distribution.

This version of Handbrake is not working for me and I'm struggling to understand what I am doing wrong. When Handbrake scans the DVD it does not find anything. I have to open and start the DVD in VLC and then Handbrake it will find it in its scan. What it does find shows as pixelated in both the preview as well as any rip it makes for me. I've tried a handful of the presets and no matter what I chose I get the same pixelated output.

Are there any other Flatpak/Handbrake users in this group that have it working successfully for them who can give me some guidance?

Steve
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