[ubuntu-za] SPAM-MED: Re: DVDs in Karmic

[Tim Johnson]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:11:13 +0200, Wesley Werner  
<wesley.werner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
I strongly recommend vlc to fix almost all DVD and Audio playback issues.

Tim

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