dvds won't play, libdvdcss installed

[Juan Kawada]

didn't seem to work.

what really gets me is that it won't even play my region-free unencrypted
dvds.

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Jerry Lapham <rjlapham at cinci.rr.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
>
> The smart ass in me is being held down. This is like the 4th separate
> time this has come up on this list in the last few months. I wish as a
> minimum people would stop giving bad advice and Google the answer up.
> Watch this turn out to be a new problem. LOL.
>
> Just remove (rename it to something else with the word backup is
> better) the file called
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules
> Then reboot your computer.
>
> All should now be working. It also will prevent any future problems
> and will make ALL the software work.
>
> I Googled it because I forgot the file name and found that there is a
> LOT of bad advice out there about how to fix this problem!! I guess
> asking here is a good idea!
>
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