On 05/08/2014 03:20 PM, John Hupp wrote: > On 5/7/2014 9:39 PM, Israel wrote: >> On 05/07/2014 12:58 PM, John Hupp wrote: >>> Playing DVD's is on my functionality checklist, and when I insert one >>> under 14.04, all I get is a prompt to open the DVD in the file manager. >>> >>> I would like it to automatically open in Gnome MPlayer (or VLC, if >>> that is a better choice for DVD's) and either start playing the movie >>> or else give me a menu. >>> >>> Reading up on the task, it looked like I needed to install libdvdcss, >>> so I opened the terminal to /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4 and ran: >>> sudo ./install-css.sh >>> >>> But inserting a DVD still produces the same prompt to open in the file >>> manager. >>> >>> Manually opening MPlayer and choosing File: Disc: Open DVD with Menus >>> doesn't work either. I can choose File: Open Location and paste in >>> the DVD path, and that starts the movie, but half of the credits and >>> such are in French rather than English. >>> >> Install >> >> vlc >> >> it will work extremely well for DVDs, and every other kind of media you >> want to use it for (music/video/network streams etc...) >> > > I have always had a high opinion of VLC, but it installs a lot of > QT-related dependencies under Lubuntu. > > Nonetheless installing VLC seems like a good workaround if Gnome > Mplayer is not currently up to the job. But at the project home at > https://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/ the overview begins with: > > A GTK2/GTK3 interface to MPlayer. The power of MPlayer combined > with a friendly interface for your desktop; You can play all your > multimedia (audio, video, CD, DVDs, and VCDs, streams etc.), > organize, sort and create playlists, take screenshots while > playing videos, be notified about media changes. Full DVD and MKV > chapter support, when supported by Mplayer. ... > > Then I found that gnome-mplayer suffers from a known DVD-playing bug, > at least under Lubuntu: Gnome-Mplayer cannot play commercial videos > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/1248194>. > (You can go there and click that it affects you.) > > It seems to me that this should have been included in the Release Notes. > > So I installed VLC, and it works. I have never liked Gnome Mplayer... there is another mplayer frontend that works FAR better.
smplayer You might try that one to see if it works better. I ALWAYS install vlc, because I know it 'just works' for all formats (and works well with network streams for the rare circumstance that I need that) -- Regards
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