Nothing plays DVDs in Ubuntu Gutsy?

[John Dangler]

On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:06 -0400, lhunsicker at mchsi.com wrote:
> 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

Not entirely sure I can help here, but if you type this in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions
it will help.  Then type:
apt-show-versions libdvdcss (or whatever package you're looking for)
it will show you something like the following:
jack at Nebo:~$ apt-show-versions libdvdcss
libdvdcss not installed
jack at Nebo:~$ apt-show-versions python2.5
python2.5/gutsy uptodate 2.5.1-5ubuntu5
jack at Nebo:~$ 

at least that way you'll see at a glance what you have to work with
and what you may need for this (and other problems like it)

Jack
> 
> 
> ----------------------  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 that the information about the available software is out of date, so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.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
> > >
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