ubuntustudio 10.10 x86_64 not able to play dvd music/video

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 12:28 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> On 16/12/2010 21:26, ailo wrote:
> > On 12/16/2010 08:19 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> >> Using ubuntu-studio 10.10 x86_64
> >> What I read about it, it supposed to play anything music and even recording.
> >> So I downloaded a dvd and installed it for playing around.
> >> Music files plays very nice, but dvd video/audio, requires plug-ins.
> > Check out this:
> > http://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
> >
> > Quote from that page:
> >
> > "To play DVDs, you also need to install libdvdcss by opening a terminal
> > and entering the following in addition to installing the restricted
> > extras package:
> >
> >    sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
> > "
> >
> Good day,
> 
> Thanks to all that participated in this adventure.
> After a lot of installing from suggestions from you I now have...:
> 
> mplayer    playing the dvd but only one picture shown.
> 
> vlc         the same as mplayer.
> 
> smplayer    playing the full video/audio.
> 
> Thanks to you I was able to learn something.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Johan

Yes, I experienced that on different Linux distros, different video
players are ok, while other video player do fail. And for some installs
the browser plugins just work one time, than you need to kill the
wrapper, if possible, to play the same video again. I run into this
issue since around a year ago for some installs, years before they all
worked ok. IMO this needs to be proved. While the averaged desktop Linux
becomes better and better I recognised that for production machines more
and more issues do arise :(.