Major problem playing dvd's

[Richard]

Thanks Tez,
this seems to help there was no libdvdread there was libdvdread3(installed)
and libdvdcss2(not installed) but now is, I try 2 dvd's on works the other 
still get the encrypted error,  READ the back of that dvd and notice that it 
said DUAL Layer format, hmm, I don't think my player can read that...

Oh, yes, I did add the deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ dapper 
free

To my sources.list.

Regards-
Rich


On Friday 01 September 2006 11:47 pm, Tez wrote:
> Richard wrote:
> > I have install kdemultimedia and mplayer and vlc player,
> > even kaffeine can't play standard dvd's
> >
> > I get this error message:
> > The source seems encrypted, and can't be read.
> > Your DVD is probably crypted. According to your country laws, you can or
> > can't use libdvdcss to be able to read this disc. (Media stream
> > scrambled/encrypted)
> >
> > ---
> > Have a standard dvd rw burner in my laptop.
> > that can burn dvd's cd-r and play music cd's.
> >
> > --------------
> > Please this is very frustrating not be able to play movie dvd's
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Rich
>
> As the error suggests, you need the libdvdcss package to read encrypted
> DVDs, and depending on where you are it may or may not be legal.
> If it is ( ;-) ) then you can add a PLF repository to your sources.list
> and install the package "libdvdcss2" and you may need "libdvdread" from
> the Ubuntu main repository.
> You can add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ dapper free
> then run
> # sudo apt-get update
> # sudo apt-get install libdvdread libdvdcss2
>
> Or you can install a package like Automatix[1] or EasyUbuntu[2] that
> will run a script to install it for you, though it's easier just to add
> the repository for PLF and get it that way.
>
> [1] http://www.getautomatix.com/ #(There is a special version for
> Kubuntu with this)
> [2] http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/
>
>
> Tez