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

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:25 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, what I meant was to apt-src vlc and compile it for Intrepid. I
guess I should have said so :)

>  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.

Sure, I did not mean it as a fix for your current problem, which is well
taken care of by the Hardy version. It's just a chance to make sure that
future Ubuntu versions work with your system - filing a bug when Jaunty
is released might be too late.