Totem DVD player

Thu Oct 11 22:40:37 UTC 2007

Hello community,

Hello Mario.

I am in this process... trying to understand the ubuntu ambient, and simultaneously trying to install 
programs or functions inside my computer.

When I say "ambient" I am trying to explain the whole scope of UBUNTU... it is: the whole envrironment (graphics, icons, programs, functions... where an ignorant as me can interact in his own computer)...

Well. I have downloaded a program, supported by Mario's advise. the name of this program is Kaffeine... it presents this information:

Kaffeine

Kaffeine is a full-featured multimedia player for KDE. It uses xine as back-end by default, but also works with gstreamer and KPlayer if installed. It supports DVD playback with menus, multiple playlists, a 10-band equalizer, and a CD cover manager. It rips and burns audio CDs to mp3 and ogg vorbis, streams audio and video and supports LIRC. For more information, visit the [WWW] Kaffeine web site. 

So I did arrived in this direction

http://kaffeine.kde.org/

and pressed the "download" hyperlink

Then, I got in this dilemma:

Current stable version: 0.8.5
Requirements:

    * xine-lib 1.0.2 - http://www.xinehq.de (1.1.7 recommended)
    * KDE 3.2 - http://www.kde.org

So, I decided to click in the first option:
* xine-lib 1.0.2 - http://www.xinehq.de (1.1.7 recommended)

After this, this was written

Step 1: Download and install xine-lib

xine-lib is the xine core engine, it is needed for all frontends and applications that use xine. You can find build and installation instructions here
xine-lib
xine-engine and many plugins, required
xine-lib-1.1.8.tar.bz2
xine-lib-1.1.7.tar.bz2
xine-lib-1.1.6.tar.bz2
xine-lib-1.1.5.tar.bz2
xine-lib-1.1.4.tar.bz2

And I decided to click in the first option:

xine-lib-1.1.8.tar.bz2

And, finally, I got into Step 2. 

Step 2: Download and install a frontend

A lot of different frontends exist today for various tastes and purposes. Most of them are media/dvd-player like frontends, but there are also frontends for special purposes like browser and file manager plugins. 

And I installed this frontend

xine-ui-0.99.5.tar.gz 

The downloads came in the environment (or ambient) as mere documents and folders, but not in icons or direct-executable acces to the Xine program..

I did click on the DVD icon, that shows the precense of the "comercial DVD movie".. and nothing happens...

¿What should I do?

The DVD program is in my Desktop, shown as a document-box as this:

/home/gerardo/Desktop/xine-ui-0.99.5.tar.gz

Please help

---------------------------------------> Subject: RE: Totem DVD player> From: mario.vukelic at dantian.org> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:04:38 +0200>>> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 20:37 +0000, Gerardo Ballesteros wrote:>> Well. I have read the details about the thread thing... but in the hotmail account there is not a>> choice for replying to list instead replying to everyone.>> thanks for considering my link. I am not familiar with Hotmail and so I> don't know about your replying options.> However, when you want to open a new topic, you should just email to> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com instead of replying to an email that was> sent to the list.>>> I did navigate to the web pages that introduce linux programs for playing DVD's.>>>> I did download some "termination" to the Totem DVD producer program.>> Could you explain what you mean with "termination"?>>> Inmediatly I introduced a DVD movie (Chinese.. from Jean Luc Godard)... but the system cannot execute or run the movie and answer me this (it is in spanish):>>>> No hay un manejador de URI implementado para «dvd»>>>> I have no idea about what is an URI driver...>> I just want to see a movie... perhaps I have to download a complete program, instead of downloading>> "terminations".>> Again, I do not understand what you mean with "downloading> terminations". I also cannot find this word on the help page I linked> to, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats>> As explained on the page, you need to enable the Medibuntu repository> and install the package "libdvdcss2".>> However, the other method that I pointed you to, via Ubuntu's Help in> the System menu (I don't know its name in Spanish), is actually easier.>> Though even after that, Totem will not be the best available DVD player,> because it has no DVD menu support. Xine, VLC, and Ogle are> better-suited to watch commercial DVDs. Their installation is also> explained on the help page I linked.>>> I bearly understand the normative questions about the DVD licenses.. but it is a good issue to>> get into.>> It certainly is, especially for one of the "good" lawyers. May I> introduce you to one of your colleages ;)> http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/>>> --> ubuntu-users mailing list> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

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