On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 20:51 +0100, Farran Lee wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 19:54 +0100, norman wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > okay, done that... It did successfully install the stuff for me. > and then I installed a load of stuff from the medibuntu repos... etc > etc > But I'm running on 64bit architecture (sorry - forgot to mention that > earlier :/), and there is no gstreamer0.10-pitfdll available for me. > And it won't install from source. > > This can't be right?! Surely it can't be that I a 64bit linux user > can't watch dvds?! > > =================================== > Farran Lee > I'm only 15 :P
excellent! Solved it! For future reference (:P) this works for 64bit users: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4736130, which gives me xine instead of gstreamer. The only problem with gstreamer is that sound does not work (as far as I know), and there is not a 64 bit version of gstreamer's pitfdll currently available for ubuntu. I could file a request for Hardy or something... if that's possible and not already been done, which I'm sure it has. anyway, I now have dvds playing :D happy! Thank you =================================== Farran Lee I'm only 15 :P
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