[ubuntu-uk] Children DVD (Windows compatible)

[Andy]

On 15/11/2007, Pascal Khoury <khoury_pascal at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Is there a piece of software I could use to view windows compatible movies &
> games?

You have asked several things at once there.

Firstly DVDs

You need something called libdvdcss2, try following the instructions at:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
(sorry if you have all ready done this).

I would recommend gxine for playing DVDs, I think it has better
support for DVD Menus.
See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultimediaApplications#gxine
Though I would install it from the Ubuntu Repository not the gXine website.


Other Movie formats (e.g. things you have downloaded from the web)
Look at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/
I can't provide much more detail without knowing the exact format you
are having problems with.


Windows Games are an entirely different kettle of fish, options
generally include:
Dual Booting with Windows.
Installing Windows in a Virtual Machine (e.g. Qemu, VMWare,
VirtualBox) (may have performance issues)
Run the game under Wine (may not be fully compatible)

Sorry for the lateness of this reply.

Andy

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