How do you watch DVDs?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 29/03/12 13:26, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Liam Proven<lproven at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 29 March 2012 02:54, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm wanting to watch some Netflix movies in Ubuntu (it's got a better
>>>> monitor than my TV's).
>>>> I want one that uses the entire real estate of the screen -- when I
>>>> tried a while ago, I got big margins all around.
>>>>
>>>> So, if you use Ubuntu in that way, what software do you use?
>>>
>>> VLC?
>>
>> Perhaps I should also ask what I can do to read an encrypted DVD -- my
>> attempts to play Netfix disks are failing.
>
>
>
> VLC is the way to go or you could use xine.
>
> However, you need to install the decoders which you will find when you go to
> the Media section here:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
>


That page's instructions don't work for me.  Unless they work in spite
of error messages:
>|  $ sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
>|  Cannot specify both -k and -O if multiple URLs are given, or in combination
>|  with -p or -r. See the manual for details.
>|
>|  Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
>|  Dynamic fetch failed; Falling back to static fetch
>|  Cannot specify both -k and -O if multiple URLs are given, or in combination
>|  with -p or -r. See the manual for details.
>|
>|  Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...


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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD