Playing DVD movies

[arijit sarkar]

On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 02:14 +0000, lhunsicker at mchsi.com wrote:
> Good evening again, folks:
> 
> One of the other last glitches is that I can't get ubuntu to play the movies
> from my DVDs.  The Movie Player is working fine on files on my hard drive.  But
> when I direct it to my CD/DVD reader, it tells me, "An error occurred.  Could
> not read from resource."  
> 
> When I use the File Browser, I can see the files on the DVD just fine.  But
> obviously this DVD intended to be read by a windows machine, as it has two *.exe
> files and an autorun.inf file, and then two subdirectories.  
> 
> If I open totem and then try to open one of the files in the VIDEO_TS directory,
> totem tells me that I need to add some codecs, but it doesn't tell me which ones.
> 
> Any suggestions, anyone?
> 

try 'libdvdcss2'


> As always, thanks in advance to anyone that can help.
> 
> Larry Hunsicker
> 
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arijit sarkar <ari_sarkar_1980 at yahoo.co.in>
India