playing movies (DVD)

[NoOp]

On 01/23/2008 02:32 PM, Doug Robinson wrote:
> Hello
>     I have two 7.10 systems; one can play movies & one cannot. I cannot
> seem to find out why the one fails.
> 
>     I am using totem (the rest do not work either) and when a try to
> start the movie,
> all I get for video is a blue screen.  I do get that very first few bars
> that is the "Columbia
>  Pictures" splash. Next I get a few bars of some music, that may or may
> not be associated with
> the movie which is "The Missing".
> 
>     Any ideas why this does not work?
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> dkr
> 
> 

I don't have an answer for you. But ironically enough I am in the
process of restoring a Windows XP drive/system for a relative; for the
most part everything works - except the Windows dvd drive won't
recognize a valid commercial dvd (home grown dvds work fine). I loaded
just about every codec known to man/woman & still couldn't get it to
work. In the end I repartitioned and added Ubuntu as a dual boot; dvd
works just fine on that. Perhaps I can get him to continue to boot into
Ubuntu so I never have to 'restore' his Windows programs again...

Suggestion: one thing that you might try doing is reinstalling
libdvdcss2 and win32codecs.

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/17198
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Aren't computers fun :-)