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playing dvd on lucid ubuntu 10.04

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Ubuntu 10.04 lucid dont play codes dvd

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Pascal Fares (pascalfares) said : 		#1

i installed libdvdread4 and mplayer in the medibuntu repositories and still not working (black screen or errors)

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Andy Hodges (ahodges) said : 		#2

did you run this command?

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

There is some more help here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs

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Pascal Fares (pascalfares) said : 		#3

yes i installed libdvdcss2

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subliminalfix (subliminalfix) said : 		#4

have you set the software repositories available and enable the dirty and backend /restricted extra in synaptic?

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Pascal Fares (pascalfares) said : 		#5

I make it work with the nogui version of mplayer (i use the command line mplayer dvd://). Did not work with the gui mplayer or gnome player, not working with totem also.

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Best subliminalfix (subliminalfix) said : 		#6

libavcodec52
libdvdnav4
libdvdplay0
libdvdread4
libffmpeg0
ffmpeg
libquicktime0
libxine1
libxine1-codecs
libxvidcore4
smplayer
vlc
w32codec-all
xine-ui
xvidcore

this is from suse so sorry if its a little different but this should cover the up and running

as i said before in your system >admin> software need to check in the third party boxes and updates

reload in system>admin>synaptic youll install those listed here in the post

as well there is a section in ??meta package uni/multiverse = restricted extras

also the g-streamers have codecs there good bad ugly youll need the ugly

hope that helps

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Pascal Fares (pascalfares) said : 		#7

Thanks for all f you

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Pascal Fares (pascalfares) said : 		#8

Thanks subliminalfix, that solved my question.