Vlc won't play DVD's on Ubuntu, or Kubuntu Intrepid

[Nigel Henry]

On Monday 09 February 2009 22:12, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 February 2009 18:31, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 17:30 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> >>> Why others, Karl for example have no problem with vlc on Intrepid
> >>> though, is a
> >>> mystery,
> >>
> >> Me too. As for Karl, I filter his posts and don't trust a word in his
> >> problem and non-problem statements alike.
> >>
> >>> but we all have different hardware of course.
> >>
> >> I think you have hit the nail on the head. You might want to try and
> >> disable PulseAudio, then set vlc to use the ALSA sound system instead.
> >> PulseAudio is known to have problems on some pretty common hardware.
> >
> > Hi Mario.
> >
> > Did an apt-get remove pulseaudio, but no change when trying to play a dvd
> > on Intrepids vlc 0.9.4. I didn't expect removing pulseaudio to resolve
> > the problem, as the same problem existed on Kubuntu Intrepid, and
> > pulseaudio is not installed on that. Anyway, it was worth a try. I did
> > also try various audio out options on vlc as well, after removing
> > pulseaudio.
>
>     To those who throw stones I have this to say: I am rich from selling
> my own company 13 years ago. While working we made some very fine things
> which you may have at your home right now.
>
>     As for my claim that VLC works for me on Intrepid I can not prove it
> to anyone but if you want anything from my Intrepid I will send it. Here
> is my version of vlc:
>
> VLC version 0.9.4 Grishenko
> Compiled by buildd at rothera.buildd
> Compiler: gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu10)
> This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
> see the file named COPYING for details.
> Written by the VideoLAN team; see the AUTHORS file.
> karl at Poor-old-8:~$
>
>
> Karl

Hi Karl.

I know that vlc works ok on your Ubuntu Intrepid, and with your hardware, but 
why it does not work on my hardware is puzzling, as other players on my 
Intrepid play dvd's ok on the same hardware. Also as I've mentioned on 
numerous posts, the Hardy version 0.8.6a of vlc plays dvd's ok on Kubuntu 
Intrepid on the same machine, same hardware.

Would you send me your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and I can compare it with 
mine, and see if mine is missing some stuff. Send it off list if you want to.

Nigel.