newbie: help needed with playing dvd's

[James Takac]

On Monday 10 December 2007 12:51:21 debian wrote:
> 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



Hi cj

personally vlc is my fav but you still have to install a few codecs here and 
there

James