newbie: help needed with playing dvd's

[debian]

On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 08:36 +0000, Robert Ashworth wrote:
> I have just (fortnight ago) converted from microsoft to ubuntu and
> therefore don't really know what I'm up to yet but, I have a problem
> that i need to sort out pertaining to dvd playing.
> 
> I have followed the instructions about playing dvd's by installing
> gxine, libdvdnav4,etc and typing commands into the terminal etc but when
> I try to play anything gxine engine fails to start and I get these
> messages in the log output:-
> 
> 08:25:41 AM: xine: found demuxer plugin: image demux plugin
> 08:25:41 AM: xine: found input plugin  : file input plugin
> 08:25:40 AM: xine: cannot find input plugin for MRL [dvd:/]
> 08:25:40 AM: xine: input plugin cannot open MRL [dvd:/]
> 08:25:40 AM: xine: found input plugin  : DVD Navigator
> 
> Please tell me what I have done wrong I need to learn
> 
> Bob

go to this link
(ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/libdvdcss/1.2.9/deb) and download
the second file.

What you are downloading is a library called "libdvdcss" and its a dvd
decrypter which you will need for playing dvd's

hth
--cj
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