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Grant Sewell wrote:
There is libdvdnav4, libdvdread4 and libdvdcss2, at least on Ubuntu 9.10. I believe libdvdcss2 is in the Medibuntu repositories and possibly required for commercial DVDs to decrypt them for playback.On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:24:20 +0000 james kilty wrote:Hello My wife has bought a new dvd. It will play on our dvd player with the tv. It won't on my laptop (kubuntu 8.04 still) - this will play other dvd's. It does not mount/read it, whereas it does for any other. Any thing I can do? JamesHi James, I have found that a DVD movie discs don't always work like eachother. I tend to use 'mplayer' (from the command-line at that) and I have found that some DVD movie discs will not play with: $ mplayer dvd:// Instead I need to use: $ mplayer dvd-nav:// It would seem (but I may be incorrect in this) that there are two sets of DVD-movie library-type-things around in general use on Linux - dvd-nav being one of them. It might be worth checking out in your application's settings (I don't know what you're using) to see what it's using to read DVD movie discs, and change it. Grant.
Medibuntu can be found here: http://www.medibuntu.org/ It may also be worth adding kubuntu-restricted-extrasI believe the kubuntu-restricted-extras (or xubuntu-restricted-extras for Xubuntu, and ubuntu-restricted-extras for Ubuntu) have some extra codecs for GStreamer to play things like DVDs.
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