Guide to getting mp3 and video working

[Subs]

Thanks a million for your help Lothar, Sarah & Frank. I have a much more 
multimedia-enabled system now.

The only things I found is that I ensured that libdvdread3 and then 
executed...

sudo  /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh

... but got the error...

sudo: /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh: command not found

... instead I used...

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

... and it worked. Perhaps the documentation on the website be updated 
accordingly to take account that the install-css.sh script may be under the 
libdvdread3 directory and not the examples directory. Either way these steps 
are a big ask for a newbie kubuntu/ubuntu user. Is there a script out there 
that will do all these things without user interaction. It shouldn't be hard 
to do - might even give it a go myself.

One of the multiverses must not have been enabled (even though I definately 
enabled them all - by uncommenting all entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and 
also installing Synaptic and ensuring everything was ticked there too). I 
think that when Amarok offered to install mp3 support (pretty nifty touch by 
Amarok I have to say) it added another multiverse repository to the list or 
something. I have since been able to install the problematic 
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse package. Phew! A lot of work for today!

Thanks again for all the help!

Kind regards,
Subs

On Thursday 11 January 2007 20:39, you wrote:
> > | I think you need libdvdcss2 as well, which you cant get from
> > | libdvdread3 anymore.  I've been meaning to ask about that, as that
> > | stops DVD's playing, and debian's decision was "we have multimedia
> > | repositories, use them instead" - we used to have a shell script.
> >
> > There actually is a script in /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh,
> > as documented on
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
> >
> > --
> > Frank
>
> Not any more there isnt, on feisty.  I've asked about this, still
> waiting on a response - mvo was going to think on it.
>
> Sarah Hobbs