Vlc won't play DVD's on Ubuntu, or Kubuntu Intrepid
Nigel Henry
cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr
Tue Feb 10 20:25:53 UTC 2009
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 07:51, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> 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.
Your xorg.conf is pretty much the same as mine, apart from the vesa driver
being installed, rather than the ati one, although my graphics card is an ati
one.
>
> > 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>
I see that Jaunty is using vlc 0.9.8a, which may well resolve the problem, but
dependency hell needs to download 61.8MB of archives, so as to install the
Jaunty version of vlc. Logically it would use less bandwidth to just install
the Hardy version of vlc which has no deps, and I know that works. I don't
want to end up with a mix and match of both Intrepid, and Jaunty packages on
my Ubuntu Intrepid install. If it had just been the vlc packages, then no
problem.
Be that as it may, I might install another instance of Ubuntu Intrepid, as I
have loads of harddrive space, and see what installing the Jaunty vlc, with
all the deps does. it would be nice to see if Jaunty's vlc actually does work
on my Intrepid install with my hardware. At the moment I'm downloading CD
iso's for Fedora 10 on dialup, so it may well be a few days before I can try
that out.
See below for all the deps that need to be installed on Intrepid, so as to
install Jaunty's vlc.
djmons at djmons-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for djmons:
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release [44.0kB]
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release
Get:6 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release [51.2kB]
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/free Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/non-free Translation-en_US
Get:7 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release [74.6kB]
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid Release
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/free Packages
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/non-free Packages
Get:8 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release [41.7kB]
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Packages [61.0kB]
Get:10 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release [41.7kB]
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
Get:11 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages [296kB]
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/restricted Packages
[2079B]
Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/universe Packages [25.9kB]
Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Packages
[1330B]
Get:15 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Packages
[6843B]
Get:16 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Packages
[61.0kB]
Get:17 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages [199kB]
Get:18 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Packages [14B]
Fetched 850kB in 2min36s (5415B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
djmons at djmons-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
flashplugin-nonfree libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 libsqlite3-0 mozilla-mplayer
sqlite3 sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin unrar
11 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 44.6MB of archives.
After this operation, 422kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
djmons at djmons-desktop:~$ apt-get install vlc
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
djmons at djmons-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc: Depends: vlc-nox (= 0.9.8a-1ubuntu2) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8) but 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu8 is to be installed
Depends: libcaca0 (>= 0.99.beta15-1) but 0.99.beta13b-5 is to be
installed
Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.15.0) but 2.14.4-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libvlccore0 (>= 0.9.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
djmons at djmons-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release.gpg
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/free Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release.gpg
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Packages
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates Release
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/free Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org intrepid/non-free Packages
Get:1 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages [1280kB]
Get:2 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Packages [8863B]
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
Get:3 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages [14B]
Get:4 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/restricted Packages [14B]
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
Hit http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Packages
Fetched 1289kB in 4min22s (4912B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
djmons at djmons-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic libstdc++6-4.3-dev libcups2-dev libsm-dev
libstdc++5 libice-dev x11proto-xext-dev libtasn1-3-dev libtheora-dev
libatk1.0-dev debhelper libaudio-dev intltool-debian x11proto-kb-dev
libgpg-error-dev libsoundtouch1c2 linux-headers-2.6.27-7
linux-headers-2.6.27-9 x11proto-xinerama-dev comerr-dev g++-4.3
x11proto-render-dev libxine1-misc-plugins libgcrypt11-dev libdc1394-22-dev
libxcb-xv0 linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic po-debconf libxine1-bin
libxdmcp-dev libkrb5-dev qt3-dev-tools g++ libogg-dev libqt3-compat-headers
libpng12-dev libsqlite0-dev libfontconfig1-dev libmail-sendmail-perl
x11proto-composite-dev xtrans-dev libqt4-xmlpatterns x11proto-core-dev
gettext libqt4-help libqt4-webkit w32codecs libxine1-ffmpeg libgnutls-dev
x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-damage-dev dkms libxcb-render-util0-dev
libssl-dev qt4-qmake libxcb-shape0 libjpeg62-dev freepats zlib1g-dev
libraw1394-dev x11proto-input-dev libfreetype6-dev x11proto-fixes-dev
libpthread-stubs0-dev libmagickcore1 libxau-dev dpkg-dev libpthread-stubs0
libqt3-headers libcdaudio1 liblcms1-dev libpq-dev libmagickwand1 libkadm55
libexpat1-dev libpq5 html2text libpixman-1-dev patch libxcb-render0-dev
libquicktime1 libmng-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shm0 libgsm1-dev libcupsys2-dev
libvorbis-dev libsys-hostname-long-perl libmms0 libxine1-console
build-essential
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gtk2-engines-pixbuf libasound2 libavcodec-dev
libavcodec52 libavformat-dev libavformat52 libavutil-dev libavutil49 libc6
libc6-dev libc6-i686 libcaca0 libcairo2 libcucul0 libdjvulibre-text
libdjvulibre21 libglu1-mesa libgraphviz4 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtk2.0-0 libltdl7 libmagickcore1 libmagickwand1
libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpostproc-dev libpostproc51 libpulse0
libqt4-assistant libqt4-core libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-gui
libqt4-help libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-qt3support libqt4-script
libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-webkit libqt4-xml
libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libsoup2.4-1 libswscale0 libvlc2
libvlccore0 libx264-65 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render-util0-dev libxft2
libxi6 libxine1-bin libxine1-console libxine1-ffmpeg libxine1-misc-plugins
libxrandr2 mozilla-mplayer mplayer-nogui qt4-qmake qt4-qtconfig vlc-data
vlc-nox x11proto-input-dev x11proto-randr-dev
Suggested packages:
libfaad-dev libschroedinger-dev libspeex-dev glibc-doc manpages-dev
gstreamer-codec-install gnome-codec-install gstreamer0.10-plugins
ttf-japanese-mincho ttf-thryomanes ttf-baekmuk ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp
ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-bkai00mp pulseaudio
mplayer-doc ladspa-sdk mozilla-plugin-vlc videolan-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libasound2-plugins libcairo2-dev libdbus-qt-1-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
libglu1-mesa-dev libgtk2.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libqt3-mt-dev libqt4-dev
libqt4-opengl-dev libx11-dev libxcb-xlib0-dev libxcomposite-dev
libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev
libxine1 libxine1-x libxinerama-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxrandr-dev
libxrender-dev libxt-dev mesa-common-dev mplayer xine-ui
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libavcodec52 libdjvulibre-text libmagickcore1 libmagickwand1 libvlc2
libvlccore0 libx264-65 mplayer-nogui qt4-qmake vlc vlc-data vlc-nox
The following packages will be upgraded:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gtk2-engines-pixbuf libasound2 libavcodec-dev
libavformat-dev libavformat52 libavutil-dev libavutil49 libc6 libc6-dev
libc6-i686 libcaca0 libcairo2 libcucul0 libdjvulibre21 libglu1-mesa
libgraphviz4 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtk2.0-0
libltdl7 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpostproc-dev libpostproc51
libpulse0 libqt4-assistant libqt4-core libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer
libqt4-gui libqt4-help libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-qt3support
libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-svg libqt4-test
libqt4-webkit libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtgui4
libsoup2.4-1 libswscale0 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render-util0-dev libxft2
libxi6 libxine1-bin libxine1-console libxine1-ffmpeg libxine1-misc-plugins
libxrandr2 mozilla-mplayer qt4-qtconfig x11proto-input-dev
x11proto-randr-dev
60 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 30 to remove and 858 not upgraded.
Need to get 61.8MB of archives.
After this operation, 4612kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
djmons at djmons-desktop:~$
I'll no doubt be back, so watch this space!
Nigel.
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