Ubuntu 10.10 beta preview - ADDENDUM

[Basil Chupin]

On 06/10/2010 02:35, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Conrad Knauer<atheoi at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>>>>> if you answer the question as YES, you will get all the necessary files
>>>>> installed during this initial installation to be able to view DVDs and play
>>>>> CDS. No need to later install Medibuntu thingies (at least that is what I
>>>>> found - I played some DVD movies without problems after installation);
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> This is rather remarkable; it installed libdvdcss2?
>>>>          
>>> Maverick is on another set of HDs so I cannot check for this file at the
>>> moment. But I guess it must have - or something equivalent to it -
>>> because I can view DVDs without any problems. Surprised me to be honest.
>>>        
>> I get the impression that checking the box installs
>> ubuntu-restricted-extras, yet according to:
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ubuntu-restricted-extras
>>
>> "Please note that this does not install libdvdcss2, and will not let
>> you play encrypted DVDs."
>>
>> I'm going to have to investigate this...
>>      
> Among the u-r-e dependencies (via gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad) are
> libdvdnav4 and libdvdread4.
>
> As per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
> though you should not be able to decrypt CSS disk content though...
> Did you actually play the movie part or just test the menu screen?
>
> CK
>    

Sorry to have taken some time to reply - I couldn't get back to my 
installation of Maverick to double-check my claims until earlier to day.

Mea culpa about the claim I made - I had totally forgotten that I had a 
similar experience in another distro and for the same reasons :-( .

I inserted a DVD which played without any problems. Now that you have 
queried this I looked at the DVD and see nothing exceptional about it 
except that it was Manufactured in Hong Kong. The DVD is The Missionary, 
with Michael Palin and Maggie Smith.

I then used a backup I made years ago while still using Windows of one 
of my favourite (and original) films, The Planet of the Apes, with 
Charlton Heston. This also played. Hence my conclusion. However, when I 
tried to play the original DVD - it wouldn't play.

BC

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