> hello everyone again... > got ANOTHER problem (oh the woes of Linux :/) > DVDs will not play at all. I've tried everything I know without going > out of my comfort zone - I presumed I could make it work in that zone > because I've done it before! However, I can't. > I had all the gstreamer plugins installed that it would allow, and > several other packages related to dvd playback. I knew I also needed > libdvdcss(2?) installed, but I can't find it in the repos. > As I've also been having several issues with gstreamer, I replaced it > with the xine engine, which claims everything comes bundled with it - > but it still didin't work. > Lastly I downloaded libdvdcss1.2.9.tar.gz from somewhere > and ./configure, make, make install-ed it (only recently discovered > that cos it never worked on my laptop!), and now the plugin/library > thing resides in /usr/lib/local (I think - got no access currently to > it). > However, none of the dvd programs point to it to play back; xine asks > for something to handle the MRL://, which I presumed it could already > do as a media player, and totem asks if I'm trying to play a dvd > without libdvdcss. > > think I've just found the answer actually, but it seems a bit obvious > so I'll post this anyway just to see what comes up :D
I had a similar error message and I was told to do :- sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
