VLC or Totem under WUBI 8.10 fail

[Mark H. Nichols]

On Nov 14, 2008, at 12:24 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:

> Mark Nichols wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>  
>> wrote:
>>> Try this, it should be fairly safe to copy and paste the individual
>>> lines one after the other:
>>>
>>> URL="http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list"
>>> FILE="/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list"
>>> sudo wget $URL --output-document=$FILE
>>> sudo apt-get update
>>> sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
>>> sudo apt-get update
>>
>> I ran the above commands and tried VLC again with no luck.  Next I
>> uninstalled VLC (sudo apt-get remove vlc), noted that a bunch of
>> libraries were now "orphaned," so I then ran sudo apt-get autoremove.
>> Once that complete I installed VLC once again.
>
> OK, with the commands above you have added the medibuntu  
> repository. That
> was the problem Karl had, so I only wrote that part. Now you still  
> need
> to install the libdvdcss2 package. I should have added this command in
> the previous mail:
>
> sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2
>
>> Now the player briefly shows the title of the DVD, but then nothing
>> happens.
>
> It can't show more because the DVD is encrypted. I think it should  
> work
> after installing libdvdcss2.
>

(slaps forehead)  D'oh!  VLC and Totem are working perfectly now that  
I've installed libdvdcss2.  Thanks for all your help.

Mark