Getting dvd to play
H.S.
hs.samix at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 04:21:14 UTC 2009
Linda wrote:
> I finally got around to installing a dvd player. I followed the
> instructions for Resticted Formats Playing DVD someone posted for me
> last week, but I get an error message from Totem Movie Player that it
> can not read from resource.
> If I try to play a commercial dvd from VLC I get a title page showing
> the movies title with a choice to play movie and some other things but
> in about 1 second it disappears and I have the choice to push play pause
> etc across the top and a blank white box. If I push play it repeats
> title then blank screen
>
> At this point I can play a home movie dvd with Totem or VLC although it
> does give me a green stripe across the bottom of the frame.
I have seen this exact problem in a computer running Hardy. I hope
somebody can shed some light on this problem.
> Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to get the commercial dvds to
> play?
Could you try one more thing? When you insert a movie DVD in to the
drive, you should get an icon on your desktop with a label beneath it.
I think you should also get a folder with the same name in /media
folder. Let us say it is called /media/MyMovie. If that is so, then
please this command (install xine if needed) and see what happens:
$> xine dvd://media/MyMovie
If all goes well, xine should play your dvd and it would mean your
libdvdcss2 is working.
> In your opinion which program is the best choice for playing DVD there
> are quite a few of them?
My preference in Ubuntu is Totem since it is the default player. More
precisely, I expect and hope that it works for DVDs. However, other
players that I have luck with are xine (or gxine), vlc, kaffeine(it is
for KDE though), mplayer. But I won't be surprised if there are others
as well.
Regards.
> Thanks
> Linda
>
>
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