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problems playing dvd's

Asked by terry_gardener

i have a problem playing dvd's on the new ubuntu karmic.

when i try to play some dvd's it says unable to open location you may not have permission, some dvd's play ok, some dvd's start to play but stop part way through with error unable to read from resources.

i have tried both totem movie player (Default gstreamer version) and vlc.

i have the latest libdvdcss2 package installed as per the medibuntu repos.

any ideas
thanks

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Book 'em Dano (heymrdjd) said : 		#1

Do you have libdvdread4 and libdvdnav4 installed?

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Edward Benson (edward8) said : 		#2

can I use "movie player"(some freeware) to view dvd movie("faceoff")? I check, both libdvdread4 and libdvdnav4 is installed on my ubuntulinux10.04. I also tried the following command
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root@eric-laptop:/home/eric# tail -f /var/log/syslog
Jul 30 07:54:58 eric-laptop rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="415" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.
Jul 30 07:54:58 eric-laptop anacron[23056]: Job `cron.daily' terminated
Jul 30 07:54:58 eric-laptop anacron[23056]: Job `cron.weekly' started
Jul 30 07:54:58 eric-laptop anacron[23265]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.weekly' to 2010-07-30
Jul 30 07:56:08 eric-laptop anacron[23056]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated
Jul 30 07:56:08 eric-laptop anacron[23056]: Normal exit (2 jobs run)
Jul 30 08:17:01 eric-laptop CRON[23391]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jul 30 09:17:01 eric-laptop CRON[23552]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jul 30 10:17:01 eric-laptop CRON[23989]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
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after I insert my dvd disk(movie faceoff) , then i click Places, there is no DVD/CD on it, it only have computer, then after computer folder show up, there is 3 icons, one of them is Dvd/Cd Drive, then I double click on it, no reponse. Then I left click on it, (Open, Open with---)
if I choose Open, it have no response
if I choose Open with, then choose "Movie Player", it pop up a window----an error occured, Could not open location, you might hot have permission to open the file
again my laptop msi a5000's dvd rw can let me watch dvd disk movie on window 7
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my dvd movie disk faceoff is play good on Apple/Mac powerbook and Toshiba laptop
so it is Ubuntu linux's problem
Eric , <email address hidden>

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