Nothing plays DVDs in Ubuntu Gutsy?

chombee chombee at nerdshack.com
Wed Oct 24 14:46:49 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 19:35 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 10/23/2007 07:09 PM, Default User wrote:

> Applications | Add/Remove | Show: All available... |
> 
> Seach DVD - add VLC
> 
> You can also add Mplayer but VLC should do it.
> 
> Then: System | Preferences | Removable Drives and Media | Multimedia |
> Video DVD Disks | replace totem with vlc
> 
> Put the DVD back in the drive & it should bring up vlc and the DVD
> should then play fine.

Thanks. I have tried VLC though and it didn't work (it core dumped).
I'll try reinstalling it via Add/Remove (instead of via Synaptic) and
setting it as the default player.






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