Ubuntu Dapper: cannot play uncrypted DVDs

[Michael R. Head]

On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 19:55 +0100, Luca Manganelli wrote:
> On 3/11/06, Tristan Wibberley <maihem at maihem.org> wrote:
> > If you are using the auto start feature to play the DVD, go to
> > System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media, go to the Multimedia
> > tab, and change "totem %d" to "totem dvd://" in the Video DVD Disks
> > section. I believe this is a bug in gnome-vfs, but I'm not sure how to
> > handle multiple DVD drives correctly.
> >
> > If you are trying to use the play disk feature from the totem Movie
> > menu, use open location and type the uri dvd://
> 
> Totem reports me this error:
> "The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. Are you trying to play
> an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss?"
> 
> but I have libdvdcss installed

Is this a new DVD drive? You may need to install and run the setregion
program. I have been baffled by this in the past. Once you do that, blow
away your ~/.dvdcss directory. You'll then want to get an old DVD so
dvdcss can get the keys. Some newer ones don't seem to give up the keys
(but once you have the keys from an old disc, you will be able to open
new ones).



> 
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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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