Nothing plays DVDs in Ubuntu Gutsy?

[James Takac]

On Sunday 28 October 2007 13:06:02 lhunsicker at mchsi.com wrote:
> Well, I'm making progress.  I followed Ashley Benton's advice below (with a
> few changes because of updates in the files).  Now when I insert my DVD,
> Movie Player is started, and the program obviously knows that it is
> supposed to be starting the movie.  The playlist and the header now say
> "Title 2, Chapter1". But I get an error message that asks,
>
> "An error occurred.  The source seems encrypted and can't be read.  Are you
> trying to play an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss?"
>
> I suppose that I am.  But I thought that I had added libdvdcss with
> apt-get. (When I search for libdvdcss using Add/Remove Applications, it
> brings up the package gxine, which is indeed installed.)
>
> What now?
>
> Again, thanks to all for the help, expecially to Ashley Benton, who seems
> to have gotten me significantly farther.
>
> Larry Hunsicker
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
> From:    "Ashley Benton" <meggalen at gmail.com>
> To:      "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: Re: Nothing plays DVDs in Ubuntu
> Gutsy?
> Date:    Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:20:06 +0000
>
> > I also had the same problem with Ubuntu 7.10 nothing works with the DVD
> > so that what I have done and now everything is working.
> > Click  system -> administration > sofware sources > third party tab (in
> > the window that appears)
> > click the add button, and in the Apt Line text box, type the following:
> > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
> > click the add button then close. You'll be informed that the information
> > that the information about the available software is out of date, so
> > click the reload button.
> > You may see error messages, just ignore them, at least it's what I did.
> > Open the synaptic package manager and search for w32codecs, put a check
> > in the box. Search for totem-xine, then libxine-extracodecs, mark them
> > too and apply.
> > Ignore the messages and proceed with installation, after your DVD should
> > work.
> > good luck
> > Megan
> >
> > On 10/26/07, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:14:21 -0700
> > >
> > > NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > > if I install Dia (sudo apt-get install dia) from the command
> > > > line it says it's installed, but it fails to run. However if I search
> > > > synaptics, synaptics now has it listed as 'dia-gnome'. Installed that
> > > > and now Dia works. Packages are showing up in two locations:
> > >
> > > Dia and dia-gnome are not quite the same package :)
> > >
> > > apt-cache depends dia > diadeps
> > > apt-cache depends dia-gnome > diadeps-gnome
> > > diff diadeps diadeps-gnome | wc -l
> > > 20
> > >
> > > Most of the diff is gnome-related, as you would expect.
> > >
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> > >
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Hi Larry

Youĺl find it via synaptic package manager. Add/remove programs is nowhere 
near as comprehensive

James