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playing dvd's
Hi, I am a newbie in Linux and I am using Ubuntu 11.04. How do I play dvd's on my computer.
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Hi and welcome to LinuxQuestions!
You have to install libdvdcss2. Take a look at the ubuntu community documentation, here. |
install vlc to play DVD and all other formats..
use this command Quote:
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even with vlc, you still will need libdvdcss2 though to play most commercial dvds. just to clear things up vlc doesn't make libdvdcss2 unnecessary.
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Using synaptic package manager or software store try installing "ubuntu restricted extras". I believe that will put in place all the multimedia pieces and parts you need. VLC player is also worth installing.
Ken |
http://medibuntu.org/
That should help you with all your multimedia needs in ubuntu, including playing DVD's |
Playing dvd's
I have Mandriva 2010 spring. I have installed libdvdcss2 I believe. I followed the instructions on this page for the all codecs file also. news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Multimedia-Codecs-in-Linux-39555.shtml I can play streaming movies and downloaded video's but still can't get dvd's to play. All I can get to play is the sony pictures intro on Xine. Movie player says "An error occured. Could not read from resource". Dragon Player doesn't nothing. VLC says "Playback Failure: DVDRead could not read block 0". MPlayer will spin up the dvd but doesn't give me an error. I have looked up a bunch of codecs. I have gstreamer decoders installed, the all201110131, and another site said to install cmpci-5.68.3lksmp. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, forgetting something or it's having a brainfart. I'm lost and any help would be appreciated.
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gstreamer problems
ok I am a newbie to this I'm trying to install gstreamer as specified by one of the many sites to play dvd's on my laptop. I couldn't tell ya the specifics on the laptop but this is the message I'm getting with trying to install gstreamer and dependencies on mandriva 2010.
[root@localhost gst-plugins-good-0.10.6]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking nano version... 0 (release) checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for g77... g77 checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes checking whether g77 accepts -g... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768 checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for ar... ar checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... no checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes configure: creating libtool appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64 checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g++ static flag -static works... no checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for g77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g77 static flag -static works... no checking if g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g77 linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64 checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) is GNU ld... yes checking for shared library run path origin... done checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for VALGRIND... no configure: Using GStreamer Good Plug-ins source release as package name configure: Using Unknown package origin as package origin checking sys/socket.h usability... yes checking sys/socket.h presence... yes checking for sys/socket.h... yes checking winsock2.h usability... no checking winsock2.h presence... no checking for winsock2.h... no configure: *** checking feature: building of plug-ins with external deps *** configure: building external plug-ins configure: *** checking feature: enable building of experimental plug-ins *** configure: not building experimental plug-ins checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... (cached) no checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) yes checking dependency style of g++... (cached) gcc3 checking for g++... yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for objcc... no checking for objc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking if Objective C compiler works... yes checking for valgrind... no Using config source xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults for schema installation Using $(sysconfdir)/gconf/schemas as install directory for schema files configure: Looking for Python version >= 2.1 checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking "/usr/bin/python":... okay checking local Python configuration... looks good checking whether to build plugin documentation... no (gtk-doc disabled or not available) checking for cos in -lm... yes checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking for stdint types... stdint.h (shortcircuit) make use of stdint.h in _stdint.h (assuming C99 compatible system) checking netinet/in.h usability... yes checking netinet/in.h presence... yes checking for netinet/in.h... yes checking for winsock2.h... (cached) no checking for FIONREAD in sys/ioctl.h... yes checking for lrint... no checking for lrintf... no checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for getpagesize... yes checking for working mmap... yes checking for GLIB... yes checking for LIBOIL... yes checking for GST... no configure: Package gstreamer-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-0.10.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gstreamer-0.10' found configure: error: no gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.13 (GStreamer) found [root@localhost gst-plugins-good-0.10.]# Please someone help me. I have no knowledge of computer engineering or any crap like that I'm just trying to get this to work on my laptop. Probably a bigger step then I should of tried but this is what i'm trying to do this. |
and to add please give specifics to my cause. Explain this to me like a 5 year old for instants
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Looks like you're trying to compile it from source, rather than install a ready made package using the package manager. I haven't used Mandriva for ages, so can't help you with that. But someone else will...hopefully.
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I tried to find a ready made package but from what I could find they don't have them. believe me I wish there was. This is 2 days I'm slowly getting this thing to work.
But ty for replying. "sitting patiently" |
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http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Des...ltimedia/Video |
yeah I got that thats not helping me now. I've gone through that. Install libdvdcss and libcss I instlled all the plf for gstreamer and any other codec I could find. I did find rpms for gstreamer so didn't have to mess with the console as far as I know, but still can't play dvd's. Tried using mplayer, dragonplayer and gzine. Still no go.
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I think this may be the time to abandon the sinking ship. The current Mandriva development team are a different lot to those who made your copy (who all went off to Mageia!) Mandriva 2011 is not as good as 2010, and the company is nearly bankrupt. Suse or Mepis might be a better bet.
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