Mounting an external (USB) DVD Drive

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
>
>> So have OP inserted the VCD/DVD? Try using the Disk Utility software to
>> mount.
>
> I am using version 10.10 - 64 bit (I haven't ungraded because I hate
> Unity). I'll try again with a different disk.  I just got the external
> drive but it is used (maybe the drive is a few years old) , the disk is
> for a movie that I borrowed from the local library.  It works OK  when I
> tried it on my neighbors windows machine so it doesn't seem to be the
> disk.  Maybe there is some new DRM that is preventing it from being used
> under Linux?  It wouldn't surprise me to find the movie industry is
> trying to come up with DRM that prevents  Linux those disks.  It might
> be special DRM used on the movies libraries lend out (But not the disks
> bought in stores).

If I understood well, when you insert the DVD inside the USB DVD
Player, the system sees it, but it doesn't playback.


If this is the case:

1. Install the package ubuntu-restricted-extras in Synaptic. This
isn't for DVDs, but it is useful.

2. Add Medibuntu repository, and from there install the package
libdvdcss2. This is for DVDs.

http://medibuntu.org


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