DVD movie on 10.04 and Windows

[Basil Chupin]

On 25/04/10 21:58, Karl Larsen wrote:
>       Yesterday I did the things necessary to display a DVD movie on my
> 10.04 Ubuntu. It involved getting software from
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu which is odd but effective.
> My laptop can now display ANY DVD movie from any area, the USA is area
> 0. I choose to display the movie with the VLC viewer because it has the
> most complete set of controls.
>
>       I have Vista Windows on my laptop so I rebooted to that and
> inserted the DVD movie and it came up automatic but it complained that
> this movie was from another area. I was not at all sure what to do but
> when I said to change the area it started to work right. I was able to
> get it to view the start of the movie as desired.
>
>       So the DVD movie can be viewed on both Windows and Ubuntu 10.04 but
> I think the controls over the movie are far better under 10.04 using the
> VLC viewer.
>
>
> 73 Karl
>    
Karl, read this:

http://trillian.randomstuff.org.uk/~stephen/linux/DVD.shtml#regionset

the first entry on this page.

BC



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