Can't play movie DVDs in Natty on HP laptop

[Adam Funk]

On 2011-06-16, Ric Moore wrote:

>      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

The effect is the same as adding the Medibuntu repository & installing
libdvdcss, isn't it?