dvd and media players

[Brian]

is there a special command to install codecs?

have tried 6 or 7 diff media players for dvd and still nothing

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 23:05 -0500, Alfred wrote:
> VLC has the Codec's built in, but the other Linux Players need the
> Codecs to play the DVD's. There used to be Easy Ubuntu and Automatix and
> there was on of these things in Ubuntu as well, that would go to all the
> places and download all these things automatically for you. Once the
> codecs are installed the the media players work pretty good for just
> about anything!
> 
> Alfred!
> 
> On Thu, 2007-01-02 at 22:35 -0500, Torsten Spindler wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 17:58 -0800, Brian wrote:
> > > have had problems with three media players now, have installed VLC
> > > Viewer, Kaffeine and gxine and still cannot play dvd's...
> > 
> > If it is a new DVD player it might refuse to play a region protected DVD
> > unless you set the region. When you use VLC take a look at the
> > information and messages window, sometimes the reason for problems can
> > be found there. 
> > 
> > Bye,
> > Torsten
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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