dvds won't play, libdvdcss installed

[Jerry Lapham]

On Saturday 04 October 2008 2:30:24 pm Juan Kawada wrote:

> I have two dvd players, my old one recently broke, so I took it out today.
> Now when I try to play dvds in my new drive I get an error message saying
> that the dvd is encrypted and that I need to run "sudo
> /usr/share/doc/kaffeine/install-css.sh" to install a decryptor.
> Dvds played fine before.
> I've run sudo /usr/share/doc/kaffeine/install-css.sh
> I've uninstalled kaffeine and reinstalled it
> and than tried "sudo /usr/share/doc/kaffeine/install-css.sh" again
>
> anyone know the problem?

Here's what happened to me:

> > And in your case, it's almost certainly the encryption, not a missing
> > device link.
>
> Actually, it was neither.  I received an email today with a .wmv file as an
> attachment.  When I tried to open the .wmv file with Kaffeine, I got a
> message that some codecs were missing and did I want to install them.  I
> said "OK" and it did.  Now not only can I run the .wmv video but the DVD
> video also works.  The laptop, which could run the DVD video before can
> also play the .wmv video.

Try it and see if it works for you.

	-Jerry
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