[ubuntu-uk] DVD playback

[Farran Lee]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 19:54 +0100, norman wrote:

> > hello everyone again...
> > got ANOTHER problem (oh the woes of Linux :/)
> > DVDs will not play at all. I've tried everything I know without going
> > out of my comfort zone - I presumed I could make it work in that zone
> > because I've done it before! However, I can't.
> > I had all the gstreamer plugins installed that it would allow, and
> > several other packages related to dvd playback. I knew I also needed
> > libdvdcss(2?) installed, but I can't find it in the repos.
> > As I've also been having several issues with gstreamer, I replaced it
> > with the xine engine, which claims everything comes bundled with it -
> > but it still didin't work.
> > Lastly I downloaded libdvdcss1.2.9.tar.gz from somewhere
> > and ./configure, make, make install-ed it (only recently discovered
> > that cos it never worked on my laptop!), and now the plugin/library
> > thing resides in /usr/lib/local (I think - got no access currently to
> > it).
> > However, none of the dvd programs point to it to play back; xine asks
> > for something to handle the MRL://, which I presumed it could already
> > do as a media player, and totem asks if I'm trying to play a dvd
> > without libdvdcss.
> > 
> > think I've just found the answer actually, but it seems a bit obvious
> > so I'll post this anyway just to see what comes up :D
> 
> I had a similar error message and I was told to do :-
> 
> sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
> 
> Norman
> 
> 
> 


okay, done that... It did successfully install the stuff for me.
and then I installed a load of stuff from the medibuntu repos... etc etc
But I'm running on 64bit architecture (sorry - forgot to mention that
earlier :/), and there is no gstreamer0.10-pitfdll available for me. And
it won't install from source.

This can't be right?! Surely it can't be that I a 64bit linux user can't
watch dvds?!

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Farran Lee
I'm only 15 :P
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