newbie: help needed with playing dvd's

[debian]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 12:43 +1000, James Takac wrote:
> On Monday 10 December 2007 12:20:07 Caleb Marcus wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 17:38 -0700, debian wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > He's already got that, I had him install it. Somehow it didn't help... I
> > told him to try VLC instead.
> 
> 
> Hi Caleb
> 
> Likely the prog in Q is trying to libdvdread3 instead
> 
> James

get vlc, vlc will make it much easier when it comes down to audio/video
since it has most of the codecs already installed for you, unlike Totem
(Ubuntu's default media player)

--cj
>