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Having video playback issues in ubuntu 10.10

Asked by Cameron McGee

since a clean install of ubuntu 10.10 32bit video plays with a stutter every 4- 6 seconds , its a definite stop start of both audio and video , this happens with any file DVD or mp4 .regardless of player used .
Also Mplayer will not play DVDs with error "no packages with the requested plug ins found - the requested plugins are dvd sub picture decoder ". It will play mp4 and files like wmv .
VLC will play anything , but the main problem with DVD s is that since the install is that after about 18 mins the system stalls and freezes up , audio stops and then the whole system crashes , the actual player goes grey and most times i have too just power off too recover.
I have installed all repository's and codec's that am aware of and done 2 reinstalls too try and fix these issues with no result .
System : Macmini intel duel core 1.66 ghz , 1.2 gb memory using ubuntu only as single boot only .
Am considering going back too 10.4 or maybe installing 64 bit ???

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Add the medibuntu ppa then install w32codecs

Are you using desktop effects. Can you also give the outpug of:
sudo lshw -C display

We need to know the video chip more than the cpu and ram

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Cameron McGee (hollycams) said : 		#2

i dont know what medibuntu ppa is or sudo lshw-display ?
I did not have these problems in 10.4 also i have been all over medibuntu web site installing everything suggested there plus the w32 codecs . i dont think system has a dedicated graphics chip properly integrated one , but nor does my windows 7 system as well as i could play Dvds fine before this upgrade .

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

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

Press CTRL+ALT+T and you will get a terminal. Run the big command there to add the PPA. You can also install w32codecs. The command i gave also is ran in the same terminal

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Cameron McGee (hollycams) said : 		#4

I have too apologise as i don't know what the big command is ? or how too run it

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#5

copy and paste the entire section below into your terminal. press CTL+ALT+T to get into terminal.

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

when it asks for your password, type it in. it won't show on the monitor.

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Best marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#6

type the following to get the w32 codecs after you've done the previous

sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2

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Cameron McGee (hollycams) said : 		#7

Thanks marcus aurelius, that solved my question.