[ubuntu-uk] DVD playback
hello everyone again... got ANOTHER problem (oh the woes of Linux :/) DVDs will not play at all. I've tried everything I know without going out of my comfort zone - I presumed I could make it work in that zone because I've done it before! However, I can't. I had all the gstreamer plugins installed that it would allow, and several other packages related to dvd playback. I knew I also needed libdvdcss(2?) installed, but I can't find it in the repos. As I've also been having several issues with gstreamer, I replaced it with the xine engine, which claims everything comes bundled with it - but it still didin't work. Lastly I downloaded libdvdcss1.2.9.tar.gz from somewhere and ./configure, make, make install-ed it (only recently discovered that cos it never worked on my laptop!), and now the plugin/library thing resides in /usr/lib/local (I think - got no access currently to it). However, none of the dvd programs point to it to play back; xine asks for something to handle the MRL://, which I presumed it could already do as a media player, and totem asks if I'm trying to play a dvd without libdvdcss. think I've just found the answer actually, but it seems a bit obvious so I'll post this anyway just to see what comes up :D Thanks === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :-P attachment: smiley-10.pngattachment: smiley-1.pngattachment: smiley-9.png-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD playback
hello everyone again... got ANOTHER problem (oh the woes of Linux :/) DVDs will not play at all. I've tried everything I know without going out of my comfort zone - I presumed I could make it work in that zone because I've done it before! However, I can't. I had all the gstreamer plugins installed that it would allow, and several other packages related to dvd playback. I knew I also needed libdvdcss(2?) installed, but I can't find it in the repos. As I've also been having several issues with gstreamer, I replaced it with the xine engine, which claims everything comes bundled with it - but it still didin't work. Lastly I downloaded libdvdcss1.2.9.tar.gz from somewhere and ./configure, make, make install-ed it (only recently discovered that cos it never worked on my laptop!), and now the plugin/library thing resides in /usr/lib/local (I think - got no access currently to it). However, none of the dvd programs point to it to play back; xine asks for something to handle the MRL://, which I presumed it could already do as a media player, and totem asks if I'm trying to play a dvd without libdvdcss. think I've just found the answer actually, but it seems a bit obvious so I'll post this anyway just to see what comes up :D I had a similar error message and I was told to do :- sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD playback
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 19:54 +0100, norman wrote: hello everyone again... got ANOTHER problem (oh the woes of Linux :/) DVDs will not play at all. I've tried everything I know without going out of my comfort zone - I presumed I could make it work in that zone because I've done it before! However, I can't. I had all the gstreamer plugins installed that it would allow, and several other packages related to dvd playback. I knew I also needed libdvdcss(2?) installed, but I can't find it in the repos. As I've also been having several issues with gstreamer, I replaced it with the xine engine, which claims everything comes bundled with it - but it still didin't work. Lastly I downloaded libdvdcss1.2.9.tar.gz from somewhere and ./configure, make, make install-ed it (only recently discovered that cos it never worked on my laptop!), and now the plugin/library thing resides in /usr/lib/local (I think - got no access currently to it). However, none of the dvd programs point to it to play back; xine asks for something to handle the MRL://, which I presumed it could already do as a media player, and totem asks if I'm trying to play a dvd without libdvdcss. think I've just found the answer actually, but it seems a bit obvious so I'll post this anyway just to see what comes up :D I had a similar error message and I was told to do :- sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh Norman okay, done that... It did successfully install the stuff for me. and then I installed a load of stuff from the medibuntu repos... etc etc But I'm running on 64bit architecture (sorry - forgot to mention that earlier :/), and there is no gstreamer0.10-pitfdll available for me. And it won't install from source. This can't be right?! Surely it can't be that I a 64bit linux user can't watch dvds?! === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD playback
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 20:51 +0100, Farran Lee wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 19:54 +0100, norman wrote: hello everyone again... got ANOTHER problem (oh the woes of Linux :/) DVDs will not play at all. I've tried everything I know without going out of my comfort zone - I presumed I could make it work in that zone because I've done it before! However, I can't. I had all the gstreamer plugins installed that it would allow, and several other packages related to dvd playback. I knew I also needed libdvdcss(2?) installed, but I can't find it in the repos. As I've also been having several issues with gstreamer, I replaced it with the xine engine, which claims everything comes bundled with it - but it still didin't work. Lastly I downloaded libdvdcss1.2.9.tar.gz from somewhere and ./configure, make, make install-ed it (only recently discovered that cos it never worked on my laptop!), and now the plugin/library thing resides in /usr/lib/local (I think - got no access currently to it). However, none of the dvd programs point to it to play back; xine asks for something to handle the MRL://, which I presumed it could already do as a media player, and totem asks if I'm trying to play a dvd without libdvdcss. think I've just found the answer actually, but it seems a bit obvious so I'll post this anyway just to see what comes up :D I had a similar error message and I was told to do :- sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh Norman okay, done that... It did successfully install the stuff for me. and then I installed a load of stuff from the medibuntu repos... etc etc But I'm running on 64bit architecture (sorry - forgot to mention that earlier :/), and there is no gstreamer0.10-pitfdll available for me. And it won't install from source. This can't be right?! Surely it can't be that I a 64bit linux user can't watch dvds?! === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :P excellent! Solved it! For future reference (:P) this works for 64bit users: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4736130, which gives me xine instead of gstreamer. The only problem with gstreamer is that sound does not work (as far as I know), and there is not a 64 bit version of gstreamer's pitfdll currently available for ubuntu. I could file a request for Hardy or something... if that's possible and not already been done, which I'm sure it has. anyway, I now have dvds playing :D happy! Thank you === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
