Re: [ubuntu-uk] Should ubuntu play DVDs gratis?

2014-03-02 Thread Peter Smout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/14 05:57, Andres wrote: On 2 de marzo de 2014 00:09:02 GMT, Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: Andres, www.fluendo.com fluendo dvd player is a proprietary product which can play DVDs. Fluendo also do a pack of codecs

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Should ubuntu play DVDs gratis?

2014-03-02 Thread Liam Proven
On 2 March 2014 08:59, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: I have libdvdcss2 installed here in the UK Same here. -- Liam Proven * Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk * GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com *

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Should ubuntu play DVDs gratis?

2014-03-02 Thread Nigel Verity
Hi The implementation of the law in the UK is already a laughing stock. I think it would move into another league if an attempt were ever made to prosecute somebody for using libdvdcss2. I would just install and be damned. Nige --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Should ubuntu play DVDs gratis?

2014-03-02 Thread Michael
On 02/03/14 00:09, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: Andres, www.fluendo.com http://www.fluendo.com fluendo dvd player is a proprietary product which can play DVDs. Fluendo also do a pack of codecs which include among others a plugin for Windows Media format (unencrypted only). The codecs work for any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Should ubuntu play DVDs gratis?

2014-03-02 Thread Peter Smout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/14 14:31, Michael wrote: On 02/03/14 00:09, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: Andres, www.fluendo.com http://www.fluendo.com fluendo dvd player is a proprietary product which can play DVDs. Fluendo also do a pack of codecs which include among

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Should ubuntu play DVDs gratis?

2014-03-02 Thread Liam Proven
On 2 March 2014 14:31, Michael h...@ukcentre.com wrote: VLC, available for Linux and MS Windows, a freeware package, will play a DVD, regardless of region coding. Yes it will, but AFAIK, mostly without the use of hardware acceleration from the video card, meaning high CPU usage ( battery drain

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virtualbox Advice

2014-03-02 Thread Liam Proven
On 2 March 2014 15:11, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: I am running 32-bit Xubuntu and use a Virtualbox VM to run 32-bit XP. Since that is about to go out of support I see the need to replace it You do? Why? Do you use your VM to access the Internet? If not, it probably doesn't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Should ubuntu play DVDs gratis?

2014-03-02 Thread Andres
? On 2 de marzo de 2014 14:59:14 GMT, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 March 2014 14:31, Michael h...@ukcentre.com wrote: VLC, available for Linux and MS Windows, a freeware package, will play a DVD, regardless of region coding. Yes it will, but AFAIK, mostly without the use of