new issue with hardy heron: cannot play dvd but cds work

[monstereater123]

cannot play dvds .... i have installed totem-xine and all gestreamer codecs with synaptic and i get an error when trying to play dvds .... the dvd loads and is mounted correctly to the desktop but tomet says "error cannot read from source" .... what does this mean and how can i fix it? I have an acer aspire 4330 laptop with a tsstcorp 8x dvd burner

[reed9]

Are these commercial DVDs?

If so, you need a package called libdvdcss2, which is in the medibuntu repository.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

[monstereater123]

[QUOTE=reed9;729962]Are these commercial DVDs?

If so, you need a package called libdvdcss2, which is in the medibuntu repository.

thnaks .... i always forget about the file lol

[monstereater123]

unfortunately the same issue occurs even after intalling mediubuntu

[D-cat]

Totem? Bleah. Try it with VideoLan Client.

sudo apt-get install vlc

[monstereater123]

Totem? Bleah. Try it with VideoLan Client.

sudo apt-get install vlc

Even Vlc fails to play an encrypted comercial dvd

[reed9]

Make sure you have the universe section enabled in your repositories.

Mare sure libdvd4 and libdvdnav4 are installed, and also install mplayer.

sudo apt-get install libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 mplayer

Make sure you're a member of the cdrom group

sudo gpasswd -a <user> cdrom

Where <user> is your username.

Insert a DVD and run mplayer from the command line:

mplayer dvd://

Post the exact error message if any.