No DVD Playback

[Phil Pinkerton]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Phil Pinkerton wrote:
>   
>> Frustrating - I can play my entire (bought and paid for) DVD collection
>> on XP but none will play on Ubuntu/Kubuntu amd64.
>>
>> I have a dual boot Acer Aspire AMD64 TL50 1.6GHz (Turion), ATI Radeon
>> Xpress 1100, 2GB DDR so the hardware is identical.
>>
>> booting the latest kernel 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Fri Apr 13 20:39:41
>> UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> today
>> I  deleted All players and codecs then re-installed via Automatix2 (just
>> became available for feisty herd5 amd64).
>>     
>
> Automatix is not supported.  I recommend following the instructions at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs .
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
>   
Matt

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs 

is where I started, when it did not work I tried Automatix2, which did
not work either.

SO BACK to SQUARE 1 ??