Playing videos on ubuntu

[Jay Daniels]

On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 13:38 +0530, Sahana Basavapatna wrote:
> Hi,
> I am unable to play any CDs/DVDs on ubuntu. Each time I attempt, I
> receive a message which says 'cannot read the file" or "Could not open
> location; you might not have permission to open the file" or "seek
> failed" (MPlayer Movie Player).
> 
> Please help. 
> 
> Sahana
> 

If you are running hardy (ubuntu 8.04) you download my script, comment
out what you do not want to install and run it.  You need to know which
directory you saved it and cd to that directory. for ~/Downloads do

cd ~/Downloads
gedit install-extras.sh &
chmod 755 install-extras.sh
sudo ./install-extras.sh

Download script here and save it...

http://www.myt60.net/ubuntu/install-extras.sh

If you are running jaunty 9.04, you must edit script and change all
hardy to jaunty if you want to install everything in the script.  Also,
you may not want to add the blink light for pidgin if you don't have a
T60 notebook with led light!!!  Other stuff you may not want so edit the
script and comment out what you do not want installed.

Don't just run the script if you don't understand what it installs.

I use this script to restore hardy in case I have to reload.  It can
take a while...

If you just want the videos and dvds to play, you probably should
install ubuntu-restricted-extras  see script.  You could just run
manually everything under #Install VLC and Other codecs to play video,
dvd, and mp3

AGAIN, if you are running something other than hardy 8.04, then change
hardy to your distro ie jaunty if that's what you have.  Use search and
replace in gedit to change this.

If you want to play cds and dvd's you need to add the medibuntu
repositories just like in the script.

WARNING: READ THE SCRIPT FIRST!
EDIT IF YOU WANT TO RUN FOR JAUNTY OR OTHER!

This is a personal script I wrote to restore the programs I use in case
I want to reload hardy.  Use at your own risk!  No error checking in
this shell script - it does what I want...



jay