Can't play movie DVDs in Natty on HP laptop

[Dotan Cohen]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:03, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've written recently about some interesting situations with a recent
> acquisition of mine (a used HP NW9440 laptop) and all the fun I've had with
> it so far (ick).
> It turns out that not only does it not play Avatar, it won't play any normal
> DVD with a movie in widescreen on it.  It plays 4x3 ratio DVDs without any
> trouble, and I can play the .avi rips I made on my desktop with the laptop,
> but not the DVDs.
> I'm using VLC and mplayer, both of which fail.
> These DVDs play just fine under Windows 7 on the same laptop, so I'm
> reasonably sure it isn't the hardware, but under Natty, no such luck.  The
> DVDs also play perfectly on my desktop, but that's never been a problem.
> My VLC and mplayer installations are straight from synaptic, so these are
> standard installations AFAIK.
> What am I missing?
>

sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

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