[ubuntu-za] DVD Installation

[Hilton Gibson]

On Thursday 02 October 2008 11:52:22 Hannes Coetzee wrote:
> vincent wrote:
> > Jan Groenewald wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:20:54PM +0200, vincent wrote:
> >>> I've just installed a LG Model GSA-H60N DVD Rewriter & while it works
> >>> like a dream in XP, 8.04 will not play DVD's.
> >>> I keep getting an error message saying "can't read from resource".
> >>> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> I don't recognize the error, but do you have libdvdcss installed?
> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
> >>
> >> You will have to type some commands in a terminal
> >>
> >>  sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list \
> >>  -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
> >>  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
> >>  sudo apt-get update && sudo aptitude install libdvdcss2
> >>
> >> Jan
> >
> > Hi Jan,
> > I loaded the libdvdcss2 as you suggested & all's working just fine now,
> > although graphics are out of sync with the sound but works fine in xp?
> > Maybe this is a subject for another thread?
> > Thanks once again.
> > Vince
>
> Hi Vince
>
> Hmm.. looks like a codec problem. What codecs have you installed? On my
> box I've got w32codecs.
>
> Regards
> Hannes

Hi Vince

Have a look at this page:
http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Multimedia

Hope it helps.

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