Video Problem WMV

[Anton Rolls]

Hi Clark,

Clark wrote:
> Thank goodness for the graphical ui is all I'll say thanks Troy and all 
> But the sate of play is:
> 
> Multiverse and universe are selected
> Canonical (Main) and Proprietary (restricted) are not selected ??.
> 
> I then tried to install the following with Adept M, as advised by the 
> Help page from the K icon on bottom panel / toolbar.  As you will see 
> the results are 50:50 success, needless to say still no go with Kafine 
> or K3b.
> 
> transcode BREAK (install) no go
> libexvidcore4  install   OK
> sox  BREAK (install) no go
> mjpegtools  BREAK (install) no go
> toolame install OK
> libdvdread3  install OK
> 
> There seems to be a lot of issues tied up with the Codecs etc.. so I'll 
> keep on trying.  I did try following
> through with the instructions to get DVD read capability but this is 
> what happened:
> 
> sudo: /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh: command not found
> cpm at cpm-desktop:~$
> 
> I get the feeling I'm digging myself a hole to fall into but it is 
> interesting.

Yes, the graphical route is probably the best way.
Avoid shell scripts - one can't tell from the outside
whether they play nicely with the package system or not -
*unless* you are willing to look inside to see whether
they do or not.
(On my system, I found and looked inside
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
and it uses dpkg -i  to install a .deb file, so I think
it does play nicely. But, in general, don't trust other
scripts, like Automatix, for example.)

I'm on Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), and to get DVDs playing
it should be necessary to do this:

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Graphical method:

Go into Adept, and "Manage Repositories", click
"Third Party Software" tab and enable Medibuntu packages.
Click Close.

Press "Fetch Updates".

Now install the libdvdcss2, libdvdread3 and libxine1-ffmpeg
packages. Type each one into the search bar until it
shows up in the list, click on the package to open it,
click "Request install". Then click "Apply Changes".

After this, Kaffeine should be able to play DVDs.
If you install VLC, it should be able to as well.

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Console method (nearly equivalent to Graphical method):

	sudo apt-get install libdvdread3 libxine1-ffmpeg

	sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O 	 
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
(that's one line, by the way)

	wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- |
		sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
(that's also one line)

	sudo apt-get update

	sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

All done.

Testing:

	kaffeine dvd
	
	mplayer dvd://

	vlc dvd://

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Wait a minute, for WMV, it's probably necessary to also
install package w32codecs, but I haven't tried it myself.

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References:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu#head-7486ed038a9becc1dff10a24cc07a38a00d70e9f
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs

Regards,

Anton.