Totem DVD player

[Hugo Heden]

Gerardo,

If you prefer, there is also a spanish speaking Ubuntu forum (hay un
foro de Ubuntu en que se habla español, si prefieres):

http://www.ubuntu-es.org/index.php?q=forum

Best regards

Hugo Heden


On 10/11/07, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 19:07 +0000, Gerardo Ballesteros wrote:
> > Hello community.
> >
> > Here is Gerardo Ballesteros.
>
> Welcome! Please allow me to point you to this page, and especially the
> section I linked to:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette#head-4b5a9f87b09948b1fe365a519f31ea2686a48f94
>
> It will explain how to use this list to the benefit of everyone, please
> note the explanation of "threading".
>
> > I have to tell you that i'm writing under two difficulties.. lawyer & hispanic... so, not very accesible
> > to language, pragmatic utterances or technical lexicon...
>
> Hispanics are never a problem. Regarding lawyers ... it depends on how
> they behave ;-)
>
> > Well, I installed an Ubuntu ambient to my computer.. an ACER Extensa 2603LMi.
>
> What exactly do you mean with Ubuntu "ambient"?
>
> > But some things are not working, as the Totem DVD player.
> >
> > Iwould like to know if I can actualize my Ubuntu ambient, to enable certain important programs, such as
> > the DVD player, 'cause I cant run movies in my machine..
>
> Some formats are legally restricted in some countries. For example, the
> movie industry wants an additional license fee from you if you want to
> watch the DVDs you've bought. This fee is included in the price of
> stand-alone DVD players, and in the price of many commercially-sold PCs
> (such as Dell, etc.), which therefore can include a DVD playing
> software. (Pure Windows directly bought from Microsoft cannot play DVDs
> either, at least this was true until Windows XP, I don't know about
> Vista).
>
> You can however install the requisite library. The legality of doing so
> depends on your country, but so far the movie industry refrained from
> harassing its customers.
>
> For instructions how to enable the playing of commercial DVDs, go to
> System -> Help in the taskbar at the top of your Desktop. Search for
> "DVD".
>
> Detailed instructions on how to enable various formats, including an
> alternative one for DVDs, can be found here
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
>
> Note that if you are using Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), then there are just a
> few things you have to do manually, including DVD playback.
>
>
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