When ever I try to play a DVD, Totem reports that there is no plugin to play the movie. Does this mean the CD-Drive drivers are incorrect, or do I need to download some extra plugins before I can play DVD's?

you don't have any xine dvd plugins installed. Totem is a different frontend for xine (meaning it uses xine to play it's movies). Xine is a pretty standard video player in linux. another example of a xine frontend is kaffiene, which is KDE-specific (i'm guessing, hence the "k" instead of "c"). I'd start at the xine homepage (http://www.xinehq.de) and learn as much as possible.

here's a good page w/ DVD plugin info: http://davis.lbl.gov/Manuals/XINE/howto-5.html

Be careful tho, linux and encrypted DVD's is sort of murky territory when it comes to legal issues. Read up before you do anything... good luck

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/

This is all you need.

You probably don't have libdvdcss installed. Use urpmi to get it.

I can watch DVD's now

And I only wish to watch the DVD's, I don't care about all the other stuff so I should be alright

Thanks for your help, I was getting kinda bored not being able to do much stuff, now I have plenty more to do than before

So which one helped you?

Yours helped. Thanks mate

Hi,

I am a newbie in Linux world. I recently installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop. I am not able to play a DVD on Ubuntu 9.10.

>You probably don't have libdvdcss installed. Use urpmi to get it.
May I request you to elaborate the above statement else give me a pointer where I can get the same.

Thanks,
Arati.

Which software are you trying to use to play the DVD?

Welcome to LQ

See here:

http://www.medibuntu.org/

Hi all,

I am able to play the commercial DVD now. I was using Totem player. I did visit medibuntu site and installed libdvdcss4. It still would not work.

After some browsing I thought I should try using VLC. And its working perfectly now. Many thanks for the prompt replies.

Regards,
Arati.