[ubuntu-za] DVDs in Karmic

[Wesley Werner]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Robin Bownes <robin at ncedatrust.org.za>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> Hope someone can help.
>
> While it is true that I'm running a relatively old notebook (Compaq nx9000
> - 2.2GHz CPU & 1GB RAM), I did not experience these problems in either
> Windows (which I ditched relatively recently) or in Ubuntu 9.04, which I
> used prior to my Karmic upgrade.
>
> Firstly, when I play a DVD (as opposed to any video file on hard drive),
> MoviePlayer stops, starts and generally hiccups its way through the movie -
> if it doesn't completely freeze at some point. I've tried reinstalling
> MoviePlayer. I've also installed every extra add-on and codex that seemed to
> relate to the issue - with no success.
>
> Secondly, some DVDs - seems to be random, although always the same ones -
> play without sound, although they do still fall foul of the above problem
> too.
>
> Any ideas.
>
> Robin
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Hi Robin.

Some DVD's also give me no sound in Totem movie player. I switched to VLC
and that fixes my sound issue. Not sure about the hiccup behavior though,
see if VLC fixes that too.

Wes
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