[Chester LUG] Ubuntu DVD playback

[Paul Williams]

Glad to hear its working.  I've checked, I can play dvds with totem (still haven't got the hang of VLC!), but no menus.  Any ideas?

> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:31:19 +0100
> To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] Ubuntu DVD playback
> From: e-mail at mcrilly.co.uk
> 
> Paul Williams wrote:
> > I have full dvd playback available in ubuntu hardy with totem.  I 
> > can't remember exactly how I did it.  I know i searched for codecs on 
> > the net and some fellow posted something about grabbing Gstreamer 
> > plugins from the restricted repositories.
> >
> > All I can find is: Totem Movie Player 2.22.1 Using Gstreamer and 
> > gnome.  If you can tell me how I can look for the plugin I'm using, 
> > I'll post.
> >
> > This probably doesn't help much, but hey ho!
> >
> > > Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:38:16 +0100
> > > To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > > From: e-mail at mcrilly.co.uk
> > > Subject: [Chester LUG] Ubuntu DVD playback
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > So I decided to give Ubuntu a try (the latest release, of course)
> > > and yes, it's nice. I like the fact it uses FF3-beta, for one. However,
> > > I have a headache from trying to get DVD playback working. I've
> > > installed the restricted media repository, libdvdcss, mplayer, gxine,
> > > the lot... Totem can now play wmv's (that's my porn sorted), AVIs and
> > > even videos from YouTube using the YouTube plugin... but not DVDs.
> > >
> > > Any help would be great. I've read a lot of guides on the 'net, to 
> > no avail.
> > >
> > > - mc
> > >
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> Hi,
> 
>     Well thanks for the reply. I actually managed to get it working. I 
> added the medibuntu repository and installed libdvdcss3 and VLC and 
> mplayer were more than happy to play DVDs then. Although, the hue 
> setting was completely out of whack. I had to set the hue to 360 in VLC 
> and bring it down in mplayer by pressing and holding '5'.
> 
> - mc
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