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

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 21:55 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> Did an apt-get remove pulseaudio <snip>

Nice, so it was not the culprit for once :)

> I know that when I installed both Kubuntu, and Ubuntu Intrepid on this 
> machine, I had problems with the display, and had to borrow an xorg.conf from 
> another distro on the same machine to get the graphics working ok.
> 
> Could you post me your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Perhaps I could compare it 
> with mine. Maybe there are some things that are missing in mine, loaded 
> modules for example.

My xorg.conf is extremely boring:
---------------
Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection
--------------

It's the default for the "ati" driver. Note, however, that I upgraded to
Jaunty on the weekend. I don#t think that xorg.conf has changed, but who
knows.

> I can easily resolve the problem with vlc on Ubuntu Intrepid, by removing the 
> Intrepid vlc, and Installing the Hardy version of vlc 0.8.6a,

I believe that the particular vlc in Intrepid has issues on some
hardware (cf. the link I googled a few days ago).

<snip>
> Perhaps we should draw this thread to a conclusion. It's not like I can't play 
> dvd's, as other players work fine, but simply that I have a problem with the 
> Intrepid version of vlc on my hardware, which can't play dvd's for some 
> reason or other.

You might want to try the vlc from Jaunty to see whether it fixes the
issue. Otherwise please do file a bug report at Launchpad (and include
info about your sound and graphics hardware as per 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Reporting#What%20to%20Include%20in%20Bug%
20Reports>