Can not play restricted DVD's in Ubuntu 10.04

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

Scroll down to: Playing Encrypted DVDs

(There may have been problems with the Mdedibuntu Repository over the last few days...)

"Medibuntu Repository Down - What To Do?" - http://www.webupd8.org/2010/04/medibuntu-repository-down-what-to-do.html

Hi :)

Most of the work-arounds wont work for me since i do not already have the sources.list on this fresh install of 10.04

To play commercial/rental dvd's try installing libdvdcss directly from the videolan website
http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
this download
http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/deb/

For mplayer & the w32codecs try
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Thank you Tom; I still can't get Totem to work but, I did get VLC to work.

WoooHooo, congrats :))

I prefer VLC for watching movies and stuff but totem is great for radio. I think to get totem working i would be tempted to use Synaptic Package Manager

System - Adminsitration - Synaptic

Click on

Edit - "Fix broken packages"

then use either search tool to find totem and right-click to reinstall it. Finally click on the "Mark all updates" button & the click on "Apply". Hopefully that should sort a few things out that might have gone a bit wonky over the last few days.

Please let us know how this goes
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

no dvd/cd icon be shown on my desktop or click dvd/cd icon at computer no response, no matter i insert my dvd moive disk before or after boot. That seem mean my system (msi laptop a5000, with dvd rw, with ubuntu linux 2.6.32-21-generic is not recognize my dvd drive at all. Please help, Eric Lin, <email address hidden>

Please don't add your problem onto the end of someone else's problem. Make a new post!

Have you installed Medibuntu and libdvdcss?

Hi :)

Try using this guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

Then when you insert the cd/dvd go up to the top taskbar and click on the "Places" menu. It should appear in there.
Please do post a new question about this if that doesn't work
https://answers.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+addquestion
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

after I insert my dvd, under "Places", then I goto "Computer", then that folder do show "CD/DVD Drive", but after i double click it, there is no response.
so I also tried:
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root@eric-laptop:/home/eric/Documents# cdrecord -scanbus
scsibus1:
 1,0,0 100) 'Slimtype' 'DVD A DS8A3S ' 'HP53' Removable CD-ROM
 1,1,0 101) *
 1,2,0 102) *
 1,3,0 103) *
 1,4,0 104) *
 1,5,0 105) *
 1,6,0 106) *
 1,7,0 107) *
root@eric-laptop:/home/eric/Documents#
------------
so, please help how to access my dvd disk (contain regular movie-"faceoff"), thanks in advance, Eric

Hi :)

Launchpad does not have a good system for old questions, especially ones that are already marked as "Solved". People tend to answer newer, unanswered questions. Please re-post as a new question using this link
https://answers.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+addquestion

Note that you can copy and paste your question into the new thread you make
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)