Playing DVD movies

[ian1379]

-----Original Message-----
>From: lhunsicker at mchsi.com
>Sent: Oct 27, 2007 10:14 PM
>To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Playing DVD movies
>
>Good evening again, folks:
>
>One of the other last glitches is that I can't get ubuntu to play the movies
>from my DVDs.  The Movie Player is working fine on files on my hard drive.  But
>when I direct it to my CD/DVD reader, it tells me, "An error occurred.  Could
>not read from resource."  
>
>When I use the File Browser, I can see the files on the DVD just fine.  But
>obviously this DVD intended to be read by a windows machine, as it has two *.exe
>files and an autorun.inf file, and then two subdirectories.  
>
>If I open totem and then try to open one of the files in the VIDEO_TS director
>totem tells me that I need to add some codecs, but it doesn't tell me which ones.
>Go to synaptic package manager and find VLC media player. It has been able to handle most of my DVD store bought movies. I have had the same trouble with totem myself and don't know to much about ubuntu myself but I have learned that by installing other packages can sometimes solve the problem.
>Any suggestions, anyone?
>
>As always, thanks in advance to anyone that can help.
>
>Larry Hunsicker
>
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