kubuntu-users Digest, Vol 72, Issue 18

[Brian Wootton]

On 14/01/11 12:00, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> Subject:
> Re: maverick won't play videos
> From:
> Clay Weber <claydoh at claydoh.com>
> Date:
> Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:46:34 -0500
>
> To:
> Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Brian Wootton 
> <Brian.Meg at btinternet.com <mailto:Brian.Meg at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>     Has anybody out there got any pointers, none of the media players
>     will play
>     my videos in Maverick - did in Lucid OK.
>      I've added the medibuntu repository, I've added all the codec
>     libraries I
>     can find, but.......
>      All the media players complain in a similar way - below is the
>     output with dragon player:
>     ----------------------------------------
>
>
> The error message isn't giving any useful info as to why the videos 
> are not playing. The ibus related warnings are concerning multilingual 
> input switching and can be ignored.
>
> maverick is still using the Xine backend for Phonon, so I would check 
> that you have the package libxine-extracodecs installed as well as 
> kubuntu-restricted-extras
>
>
> clay
>
>      %\ dragon
>     dragonplayer(2205)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction
>     "aspect_ratio_menu" with KXMLGUIFactory!
>     dragonplayer(2205)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction
>     "audio_channels_menu" with KXMLGUIFactory!
>     dragonplayer(2205)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction
>     "subtitle_channels_menu" with KXMLGUIFactory!
>     QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch
>     failed: No such file or directory
>     QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/brian/.config/ibus/bus
>     Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
>     IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
>
>     -------------------------------------------------------
>
>     what starts the 'ibus-daemon', what is this daemon doing? what
>     would happen
>     if I invented .config/ibus/bus?
>     brian
>
Thanks Clay
This turned out to be my old enemy - libdvdcss - ha. What a memory I 
haven't got.
As soon as I installed libdvdcss2 from the repos all the media players 
started working.
  My next project is to find out how to convert a camera video file to a 
VIDEO-TS dvd so
that it will play on a TV video player - you may wish me luck.
brian