<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/7/2014 9:39 PM, Israel wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:536AE055.3080009@gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 05/07/2014 12:58 PM, John Hupp wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Playing DVD's is on my functionality checklist, and when I insert one under 14.04, all I get is a prompt to open the DVD in the file manager. I would like it to automatically open in Gnome MPlayer (or VLC, if that is a better choice for DVD's) and either start playing the movie or else give me a menu. Reading up on the task, it looked like I needed to install libdvdcss, so I opened the terminal to /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4 and ran: sudo ./install-css.sh But inserting a DVD still produces the same prompt to open in the file manager. Manually opening MPlayer and choosing File: Disc: Open DVD with Menus doesn't work either. I can choose File: Open Location and paste in the DVD path, and that starts the movie, but half of the credits and such are in French rather than English. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Install vlc it will work extremely well for DVDs, and every other kind of media you want to use it for (music/video/network streams etc...) </pre> </blockquote> I have always had a high opinion of VLC, but it installs a lot of QT-related dependencies under Lubuntu. Nonetheless installing VLC seems like a good workaround if Gnome Mplayer is not currently up to the job. But at the project home at <a href="https://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/">https://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/</a> the overview begins with: <blockquote>A GTK2/GTK3 interface to MPlayer. The power of MPlayer combined with a friendly interface for your desktop; You can play all your multimedia (audio, video, CD, DVDs, and VCDs, streams etc.), organize, sort and create playlists, take screenshots while playing videos, be notified about media changes. Full DVD and MKV chapter support, when supported by Mplayer. ... </blockquote> Then I found that gnome-mplayer suffers from a known DVD-playing bug, at least under Lubuntu: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/1248194">Gnome-Mplayer cannot play commercial videos</a>. (You can go there and click that it affects you.) It seems to me that this should have been included in the Release Notes. So I installed VLC, and it works. </body> </html>