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Re: [LUG] possibly OT dvd won't play

 

Rob Beard 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.

Medibuntu can be found here: http://www.medibuntu.org/

It may also be worth adding kubuntu-restricted-extras

I 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.

Rob
It could also be nothing to do with the OS, but the hardware instead. Some DVD drives are finicky about what discs they will read. Also it might be one of the bigger movie companies such as Sony-Time Warner who use different dyes and/or mess around protecting their discs in the misguided belief that anyone playing them on a computer is a criminal. Do you have other DVDs from the same movie company that *do* play on the PC?

Julian

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