Nothing plays DVDs in Ubuntu Gutsy?

[Bill Moseley]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:46:49PM +0100, chombee wrote:
> 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.

VLC on my laptop runs, but very poorly -- the video pauses ever few
seconds.  I have the best luck with Mplayer.

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org