DVD playing on my HP AMD64 laptop

If you are trying to watch a commercial dvd, chances are you need to add a package so that ubuntu can decrypt the dvds. Because of licensing issues it can't be included by default. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu for the info you need. Pay attention to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu#Playing%20Encrypted%20DVDs for the how to on installing libdvdcss2 which is what you need for encrypted dvds.

Hello Jim this as far as I got
abraham@abraham -laptop:~$ wget -c http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2/_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_amd64.deb
--17:18:15-- http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2/_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_amd64.deb
           => `_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_amd64.deb'
Resolving packages.medibuntu.org... 88.191.30.43, 213.186.45.139
Connecting to packages.medibuntu.org|88.191.30.43|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
17:18:15 ERROR 404: Not Found.

abraham@abraham -laptop:~$ sudo dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_amd64.deb
sudo: unable to resolve host abraham -laptop
abraham@abraham -laptop:~$

If you're using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy):

Your problem is most likely solved by using the Add/Remove Programs, and installing the: "Ubuntu Restricted Extras" package.

I hope this helps :)

Regards, Trygve

Please visit the http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/ and download the package using the link below:

wget -c http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_amd64.deb

Hope this helps

firstly I found restricted extras and selected and apllied changes it was downloading for a very long time and it didnt end downloading so I aborted it.

I visited the above http>//packages etc and didnt quite know what to do..

have a look here :
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Hardy#Installing_DVD_Support

I was finally able to access add/remove and install restricted extras.Hope it does what you suggest
thank you
John