Nothing plays DVDs in Ubuntu Gutsy?

[lhunsicker at mchsi.com]

Well, I'm making progress.  I followed Ashley Benton's advice below (with a few
changes because of updates in the files).  Now when I insert my DVD, Movie
Player is started, and the program obviously knows that it is supposed to be
starting the movie.  The playlist and the header now say "Title 2, Chapter1". 
But I get an error message that asks,

"An error occurred.  The source seems encrypted and can't be read.  Are you
trying to play an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss?"

I suppose that I am.  But I thought that I had added libdvdcss with apt-get. 
(When I search for libdvdcss using Add/Remove Applications, it brings up the
package gxine, which is indeed installed.)

What now?

Again, thanks to all for the help, expecially to Ashley Benton, who seems to
have gotten me significantly farther.

Larry Hunsicker




----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
From:    "Ashley Benton" <meggalen at gmail.com>
To:      "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Nothing plays DVDs in Ubuntu Gutsy?
Date:    Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:20:06 +0000

> I also had the same problem with Ubuntu 7.10 nothing works with the DVD so
> that what I have done and now everything is working.
> Click  system -> administration > sofware sources > third party tab (in the
> window that appears)
> click the add button, and in the Apt Line text box, type the following:
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
> click the add button then close. You'll be informed that the information
> that the information about the available software is out of date, so click
> the reload button.
> You may see error messages, just ignore them, at least it's what I did.
> Open the synaptic package manager and search for w32codecs, put a check in
> the box. Search for totem-xine, then libxine-extracodecs, mark them too and
> apply.
> Ignore the messages and proceed with installation, after your DVD should
> work.
> good luck
> Megan
> 
> On 10/26/07, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:14:21 -0700
> > NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > > if I install Dia (sudo apt-get install dia) from the command
> > > line it says it's installed, but it fails to run. However if I search
> > > synaptics, synaptics now has it listed as 'dia-gnome'. Installed that
> > > and now Dia works. Packages are showing up in two locations:
> >
> > Dia and dia-gnome are not quite the same package :)
> >
> > apt-cache depends dia > diadeps
> > apt-cache depends dia-gnome > diadeps-gnome
> > diff diadeps diadeps-gnome | wc -l
> > 20
> >
> > Most of the diff is gnome-related, as you would expect.
> >
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> >
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