Can't play movie DVDs in Natty on HP laptop

[Adam Funk]

On 2011-06-20, Ric Moore wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 14:01 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: 
>> On 2011-06-16, Ric Moore wrote:
>> 
>> >      A. On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:03 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

>> >> 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?
>
> That is where it comes from, isn't it? I guess the legal bit is the
> reason for it. If you get hauled off to the pokey, you cannot say that
> "They did it to me! I didn't KNOW!" <sobs uncontrollably>
>
> Nope, you have to manually launch the command line bit to config and
> launch it. Makes sense, no idea if that is it though. Ric

[answering my own question]

I just took a look at install-css.sh --- it is in fact an automated
way of wgetting & dpkg-installing the current libdvdcss package from
medibuntu.  Of course, if you use the medibuntu repository, you get
other goodies like codecs, mplayer, & mencoder.