DVD playback problem (Warty)

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:49:45PM +0000, paul marwick wrote:
> In article <9227f73e04121607463c822f77 at mail.gmail.com>,
> Jon Dixon <dixon.jon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Have you considered MPlayer?
> 
> Funny you should mention that. Yes, I've downloaded it (don't curretnly
> have an Ubuntu box that can talk to the net, so I have to download
> manually and install using Dpkg.
> 
> > A guide to getting it running on Ubuntu (and other things) can be found
> > at:
> > 
> > http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/hack/ubuntu.txt
> 
> Thanks. I'll check that out. One thing I have had problems with (may be
> related to the fact that I'm using ftp to download packages rather than
> being able to use Apt) is finding the W32codecs. So far, I've got the
> source, but couldn't find them in .deb form (unless I'm looking for the
> wrong name). I tried ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat but haven't
> spotted them yet. Any ideas where else I might find the .deb package?

(this will probably wrap)
ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/w32codecs_20040916-0.0_i386.deb

Using apt or synaptic would be easier, especially for finding the package.