DVD Player program

John Conover conover at rahul.net
Sun Aug 14 02:30:57 UTC 2005


Matt Galvin writes:
> On 8/13/05, Tim Holmes <tholmes at mcaschool.net> wrote:
> > One other question please folks -- I am looking for a program to watch
> > DVD movies on my Ubuntu machine-- any good recommendations
> 
> I personally use totem. It comes installed with ubuntu by default and
> works really well. You will want to use the xine backend for totem
> which you can install like so:
> 
> sudo apt-get install totem-xine
> 
> In order to watch dvd's you will need to install libdvdcss2. You can
> get that here:
> 
> http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/deb/libdvdcss2_1.2.9-1_i386.deb
> 
> and install it with
> 
> sudo dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.9-1_i386.deb
> 
> Caution: libdvdcss is considered illegal in some countries. You may
> want to check local laws to ensure your saftey. Generally it is ok to
> use for person viewing. And I mean ONLY "PERSONAL VIEWING".
> 
> You will also want to make sure dma is enabled on your dvd drive with:
> 
> sudo hdparm -d 1 /dev/dvd
> sudo hdparm -c 1 /dev/dvd
>

What's the minimum machine configuration for totem? Will a half
GHz. machine work?

     Thanks,

     John

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