Xine/VLC

[Michael Shaw]

Peter Garrett wrote:

>On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:03:14 -0700
>Michael Shaw <mshaw at dowco.com> wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>I just installed Breezy, and have stumbled across the lack of libdvdcss2 
>>and xine or vlc support from the stock sources.  I tried googling but to 
>>no avail (every one I tried failed).  Does anyone know if any sources 
>>that would have the multimedia packages that Ubuntu has judiciously 
>>decided to leave out?
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>I think if you read and follow
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>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats
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>You will solve  (most of?) your problems.  The method for grabbing libdvdcss involves copy pasting one line into a terminal, and running the script, for instance. Most of the rest is available from the multiverse and universe repositories.
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>Peter
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Thanks.  That is what I am looking for.  Unfortunately, I totally borked 
my install when trying to install VMWare, so I will have to reinstall 
(I'm running Ubuntu in VMWare to assess its viability as a desktop, so 
it's easy to reinstall).

Mike