On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 17:10 +0100, norman wrote: > < snip > > > > > > > > > Thank you, I will investigate and see what's what. > > > > > > This is remarkable. I have used 3 different pieces of software and all > > > three give the same result. Three .vob files are produced the first of > > > which seems to be the entire video whereas the other two are parts and > > > do not cover the whole video. The smaller files play in Avidemux and can > > > be edited but the large file does not play. The sound is there but the > > > video appears as many, almost horizontal coloured lines. > > > > > > Has anyone any idea of what is going on? > > > If it wasn't for them being home made DVD's I would say you need libdvdcss > > installed. > > > I have checked and you could well be right. Not only have I not got > libdvdcss installed I cannot find it with synaptic. Please advise this > not very computerate old man on what to do. > > Norman > > It should just be:
sudo apt-get install libdvdread3 sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh But only commercial DVDs are normally scrambled. Wont hurt to give it a try though. Darren -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
