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

[Karl F. Larsen]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
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>   
    Here it is. Not much there.

karl at Poor-old-8:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option    "AddARGBGLXVisuals"    "True"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Default Device"
    Driver    "nvidia"
    Option    "NoLogo"    "True"
EndSection



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