Only some DVDs play

[chejose2]

I have used my PC for watching videos for some time. Normalmente with VLC under Ubuntu 10.4.

Recently though I have two videos I brought from the States (I am in Argentina) and neither will work. They are ok on my DVD player, but not on the PC.

In VLC the control pannel opens, but the video window opens a second and closes. in the Mplayer it says it could not read from source.

I can think of anything else to do, so appeal to the forum.

Thanks,

José

[daark.child]

Try installing codecs to play restricted formats. The instructions are available here.

[chejose2]

Many thanks for getting back to me.

I worked through the page you suggested. the ubuntu-restricted-extras were already installed.. libdvdread4 is installed. I followed through with other suggestions in the Ubuntu help pages, and finally I ran out of things to do. VLC still just opens the picture window a second and closes it.

So... I am still stuck.

José

[reed9]

Just to be clear, is libdvdcss also installed?

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

[chejose2]

Thanks Reed9
I have tried twice to install it. Once earlier today and again now. It tries to download something from packages.medibundu.org and simply times out. I have let it run for a while both times, but always it times out.

That "shouldn't be" but is very persistent. Medibundu is listed in softward sources twice

José

[reed9]

The above method isn't dependent on your sources.list.

Not sure why it's timing out. I checked and the package and site seem fine. Do it manually I suppose

wget http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.3medibuntu1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.3medibuntu1_i386.deb

If you're running 64 bit use this url instead

wget http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.3medibuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.3medibuntu1_amd64.deb

[chejose2]

My exprience with Linux is moderate, but it does seem strange that it is not possible to make that connection.

I used your code and waited for 7 "connection timed out" results. shouldn't be doing that but is.

José

[reed9]

It seems to be something with your connection. Are you behind a proxy or anything?

I found a build on launchpad, you could try that
https://launchpad.net/~freshmedia/+a...ildjob/1487765

[chejose2]

No, my connections is no problem. Today I have received mail, installed a bunch of updates, scanned a number of web pages. I have a direct dsl connection through a modem.

Yes, the needed file seems to be there, but I am afraid that I have no idea of which nor how to install it.

So I need help.

José

[reed9]

wget https://launchpad.net/~freshmedia/+archive/ppa/+buildjob/1487765/+files/libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.2medibuntu1~ppa1~lucid1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.2medibuntu1~ppa1~lucid1_i386.deb

Or download with your browser by clicking on the link that reads

libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.2medibuntu1~ppa1~lucid1_i386.deb

And double click the downloaded file to install.