Nothing plays DVDs in Ubuntu Gutsy?

ron peake rpeake at pp.nic.fi
Thu Oct 25 13:49:43 UTC 2007


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.
> 
> 
> 
I too had the same problem, but after the latest Gutsy updates the 
problem went away. Now Totem, VLC and MPlayer all work on my box!
Regards,
Ron




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