<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks Anton, I'm running Kubuntu 7.10 and as you suggested I have tracked the Medibuntu repositories, I think this one should do but not entirely sure where and how much to paste into the repository source box but I tried Medibuntu on its own in the source box first and now Adept Manager is hung and when I tried a reload it returned: E: Type 'Medibuntu' is not known on line 67 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list E: The list of sources could not be read. Looks like I may have to learn how to use kate to delete line 67 but that will take time. Any other suggestions appreciated. The proper repository add. follows but do I enter the line or from medibuntu or ??? <ul> <li class="gap"> Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon": <pre>sudo wget <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list">http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list</a> -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list</pre> </li> </ul> Anton Rolls wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4781856A.8010607@wilddsl.net.au" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Clark, Clark wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thank goodness for the graphical ui is all I'll say thanks Troy and all But the sate of play is: Multiverse and universe are selected Canonical (Main) and Proprietary (restricted) are not selected ??. I then tried to install the following with Adept M, as advised by the Help page from the K icon on bottom panel / toolbar. As you will see the results are 50:50 success, needless to say still no go with Kafine or K3b. transcode BREAK (install) no go libexvidcore4 install OK sox BREAK (install) no go mjpegtools BREAK (install) no go toolame install OK libdvdread3 install OK There seems to be a lot of issues tied up with the Codecs etc.. so I'll keep on trying. I did try following through with the instructions to get DVD read capability but this is what happened: sudo: /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh: command not found cpm@cpm-desktop:~$ I get the feeling I'm digging myself a hole to fall into but it is interesting. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Yes, the graphical route is probably the best way. Avoid shell scripts - one can't tell from the outside whether they play nicely with the package system or not - *unless* you are willing to look inside to see whether they do or not. (On my system, I found and looked inside /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh and it uses dpkg -i to install a .deb file, so I think it does play nicely. But, in general, don't trust other scripts, like Automatix, for example.) I'm on Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), and to get DVDs playing it should be necessary to do this: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Graphical method: Go into Adept, and "Manage Repositories", click "Third Party Software" tab and enable Medibuntu packages. Click Close. Press "Fetch Updates". Now install the libdvdcss2, libdvdread3 and libxine1-ffmpeg packages. Type each one into the search bar until it shows up in the list, click on the package to open it, click "Request install". Then click "Apply Changes". After this, Kaffeine should be able to play DVDs. If you install VLC, it should be able to as well. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Console method (nearly equivalent to Graphical method): sudo apt-get install libdvdread3 libxine1-ffmpeg sudo wget <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/feisty.list">http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/feisty.list</a> -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list (that's one line, by the way) wget -q <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg">http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg</a> -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update (that's also one line) sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 All done. Testing: kaffeine dvd mplayer dvd:// vlc dvd:// - - - - - - - - - Wait a minute, for WMV, it's probably necessary to also install package w32codecs, but I haven't tried it myself. - - - - - - - - References: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu#head-7486ed038a9becc1dff10a24cc07a38a00d70e9f">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu#head-7486ed038a9becc1dff10a24cc07a38a00d70e9f</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs</a> Regards, Anton. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>