Unable To Watch DVD's

carlosinfl · 12-03-2007, 08:00 AM

I am using Debian Lenny and have Totem (Movie Player) installed however when I throw a movie DVD into my DVD-ROM, I am unable to watch it and was wondering how I can do so? I would like to not download MPlayer or anything else as I would think Totem is sufficient and it just needs GStreamer plugin to watch movies but I don't know what exactly I need and or where to get it.

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

craigevil · 12-03-2007, 08:49 AM

Do you have libdvdcss installed? You can get it from the debian-multimedia.org repo. I would also suggest installing the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-full package from the same repo.

Dutch Master · 12-03-2007, 08:58 AM

Note that libdvdcss is not available for 64 bit! I've tried building it from source, but that failed for some reason (can't remember the errors though)

carlosinfl · 12-03-2007, 03:14 PM

Thanks!

I am using Lenny (32-bit) simply because Flash is crucial in my day - day survival.

As for your suggestion, where do I find that repo? I searched and could not find the correct repo to add so I can apt-get the packages you suggested. Currently my source file looks like this:

Code:

cwilliams@cwilliams:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main

craigevil · 12-03-2007, 03:31 PM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e.list-330913/

The slayer · 12-04-2007, 08:39 AM

You just need this part:

Code:

# Testing 
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
#Testing Security updates
#deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib

THen search for the package.

carlosinfl · 12-04-2007, 08:47 AM

I got it working and its awesome to be able to watch DVD's on my laptop and PC - thanks all!

farslayer · 12-04-2007, 09:24 AM

just for future searches..

edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the debian-multimedia repository.

http://www.debian-multimedia.org/

Code:

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

substitude etch/lenny/sid or stable/testing/unstable as appropriate for your system.

aptitude update
aptitude install debian-multimedia-keyring
aptitude install libdvdcss2