Mounting an external (USB) DVD Drive

[Basil Chupin]

On 22/01/12 07:30, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> 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.

Well, you need  bit more than simply libdvdcss2. You also need the 
codecs file starting with letter "w".

> http://medibuntu.org

BC

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