How do you watch DVDs?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 29/03/12 13:51, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>
>> On 29/03/12 13:26, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Liam Proven<lproven at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 29 March 2012 02:54, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm wanting to watch some Netflix movies in Ubuntu (it's got a better
>>>>> monitor than my TV's).
>>>>> I want one that uses the entire real estate of the screen -- when I
>>>>> tried a while ago, I got big margins all around.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, if you use Ubuntu in that way, what software do you use?
>>>>
>>>> VLC?
>>>
>>> Perhaps I should also ask what I can do to read an encrypted DVD -- my
>>> attempts to play Netfix disks are failing.
>>
>>
>>
>> VLC is the way to go or you could use xine.
>>
>> However, you need to install the decoders which you will find when you go
>> to the Media section here:
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
>>
>> BC
>>
>
> Sorry, could have done better if I slowed down...
>
> Look here:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Here, too, the instructions fail:
>|  $ sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update
>|  Cannot specify both -k and -O if multiple URLs are given, or in combination
>|  with -p or -r. See the manual for details.
>|
>|  Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...


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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD