Can't play movie DVDs in Natty on HP laptop

[Ric Moore]

     A. On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:03 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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

It's that last bit that isn't widely known. Ric

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