i've installed medibuntu and all codecs and software needed but dvds still won't play

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

Hope that helps
Shane

sorry also i'm on ubuntu version 8.10
...

thank you for the post but i already have software they are suggesting.
i must sound so useless but unfortunatly i have no idea what to do next

...

after installing all of the codecs are there still some dvd's that can't be played?

Full-Fear said : i have installed medibuntu,several codecs all successful
I think that you didn't install w32codecs correctly
1- add medibuntu to menu.lists
 1.1 : open a terminal and tape : sudo gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
 then add this at the end of file :
 ## medibuntu
 deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ intrepid free non-free
2- now, return to the termina and tape :
wget -q http://fr.packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
3- tape : sudo apt-get update
4- sudo apt-get upgrade
5- sudo apt-get install w32codecs

You can also look for the w32codecs with synaptic manager (system->administration->synaptic manager)

Good Luck :)

PS : if you are using hardy, just change this line : deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ intrepid free non-free by deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

i've follwed the steps you gave and finished with this message in terminal

sketch@Full-Fear:~$ sudo apt-get install w32codecs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
w32codecs is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

hmm
open : applications -> add/remove
then choose all application, then tape : gstream in the serach box, then mark all the codecs that appear and hit the apply button.
I hope this will solve your problem.
PS : if you have good connexion, could you upload one of the movies that you can't read (for expample upload on rapidshare or zshare or any upload/download site)

it appears that i already have installed this software
and all of the codecs for it as well
i have a strong connection but it's not the video files that are having problems it's the viewing of dvds

they have all been PAL version
and REGION 2

dvds such as

Mr deeds
Family guy
American dad
x-men
big daddy
happy gilmore

but my cd/dvd drie won't even aknowledge that there's a DVD disc in there!!

I wanna to be sure of something : your cd/dvd drive recognize cds but doesn't recognize dvds ??

thats correct!

but it didn't have this problem on windows and all i've done is install ubuntu
 with a cd
so there's no problem with the cd drive unless there is a setting on here for the cd drive i haven't found yet

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 ubuntu-restricted-extras

Should sort you out. Do DVDs work in any app (Mplayer, Totem, VLC, Dragon etc)

Try a few, see what happens

Hmmm, what family of graphics card? Intel, nVidia or ati? Did you go for the non-free or did you stick to just the Free? i've taken the risk and installed all the non-free and it's kinda working well. The Free is as in "Freedom of Choice" rather than necessarily being about cash.

actionparsnip said:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 ubuntu-restricted-extras
Should sort you out. Do DVDs work in any app (Mplayer, Totem, VLC, Dragon etc)
Try a few, see what happens~~

Thank you i tried this but it said that all were up date and already installed
and the list of video players you gave i have installed with codecs but none can open the dvd

i can insert a cd and an icon will appear on my desktop telling me there is an audio cd inserted and then i can choose to play with whichever software i like but when i insert a dvd nothing appears on the desktop...
if i go on the home folder where on the left you can see the removable media and document folders such as videos and music it will not allow me to access the cd/dvd if any sort of dvd is in there!
this could very well be the problem but then...
how would i sort that out?

try:

mplayer dvd://1

Please can you try upgrading to 9.04?
Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

Let's keep the upgrade to ubuntu 9.04 as a final solution
I looked in many websites for your problem, but I couldn't find a solution
eventhough, I want you to do this :
insert a dvd in your cd/dvd drive, then open a terminal and tape : cat /etc/mtab
a dozen of lines will appear, I wanna just to know if you have a line that lok like this :
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8,user=YourLogin 0 0

I wanna to be sure if your cd/dvd drive will be mounted when you put a dvd or not ?

Thanks, RachedTN

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

Full-Fear said 7 seconds ago:
Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

i don't understand why it said that i never posted that and i still haven't worked it out?
i will try to put it on 9.04
could you please tell me what i'd be running on (e.g. i'm on intrepid now)
sorry for the last post again
and a big thank you to all of you that are helping me with this

1. To upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”, press Alt+F2 and

2. Type in “update-manager -d” (without the quotes) into the command box.

3. Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release ’9.04′ is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.

Thanks, RachedTN

Did you try what Rached suggested?

Did you check settings in Nautilus preferences -> Media preferences
http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/gosnautilus-61.html.en

ok so i've upgraded my system to 9.04 and during the upgrade there were 4 errors
i'm a little worried as it finished saying that it was unstable did anyone else get this message???

i haven't tried to load a dvd yet but i have tried to load system testing...
(System->Administration->System testing)
it looks like it's trying to load but nothing happens
is there anything i should do before i start trying to use the OS
also will i have to reload the codecs now?
again thank you for everyones help it's greatly appreciated : D

could you please tell us what are these 4 errors.

i will try but i'm afraid that i may need to reinstall the software to do so
take note of the errors which i really should have done
... ...i know

i'm sorry i know i'm not being much help
i did check that line of code you aked me to check for on one of the above posts it took a while but it wasn't there!

so i'm going to reinstall this software take note of anything that states an error i will post everything word by word
but i don't think i'll be able to post until tomorrow morning for me. (i live in the uk)

have you ever had trouble like this ??

Ok, May GOD help you my friend.
No , I hadn't have a trouble like this, but I am doing my best to figure out wht's the problem and I hope that somebody can help you and us too :)

good afternoon everyone
i have downloaded ubuntu 9.04 and burnt that to a cd
and then intalled ubuntu again by running the cd from startup
this time it had no problems what so ever no errors at all and i am back to the basic 9.04
OS
so far i have installed my Nvidia 180 non-free software to gain better resolution
i have gone to the help and support section (SYSTEM-->HELP & SUPPORT)
and have installed:
libdvdnav4, (successful)
libdvdread4, (stated that was already installed)
Gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad (successful)
Gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly (successful)
i have yet to run terminal with this coding

   sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

i have gone to add/remove
(Applications-->Add/Remove)
and used the drop down bar to select all available software
and typed in Gstream
i tried to select all possible updates and add-ons for this application but one of them gave an error message

the message reads

Cannot install 'gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mpegdemux'
This application conflicts with other installed software. To install 'gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mpegdemux' the conflicting software must be removed first.
Switch to the 'synaptic' package manager to resolve this conflict.

before doing anything else i have posted this information in case there is anything i should do
i hope this helps :D

(BTW i have entered a DVD into my drive but there was still no reaction or any suggestion that there was a dvd inserted)

Full-Fear said :
Cannot install 'gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mpegdemux'
This application conflicts with other installed software. To install 'gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mpegdemux' the conflicting software must be removed first.
Switch to the 'synaptic' package manager to resolve this conflict.

before doing anything else i have posted this information in case there is anything i should do
i hope this helps :D

RachedTN : tyhis package is not necessary, so just keep installing other codecs like : w32codecs

Full-Fear said : (BTW i have entered a DVD into my drive but there was still no reaction or any suggestion that there was a dvd inserted)

RachedTn : after installing all sort of codecs, try what actionparsnip said : mplayer dvd://1

Good luck :)

ok i have downloaded what i am hoping are the correct w32codecs from
http://packages.medibuntu.org/jaunty/w32codecs.html
i chose the i386.deb package
installation successful

>>>now just to be sure that i'm doing the right thing where would i enter
mplayer dvd://1<<<

taking into account i have not set any media preferences or downloaded anything like vlc or well anything exept what i stated above

 go to add/remove (Applications-->Add/Remove) and use the drop down bar to select all available software
and type: mplayer , and install it
After the installation, open a terminal and tape : mplayer dvd://1

ok i tried this first without a dvd inserted then with a dvd inserted
and i came with this

WITHOUT DVD
sketch@Full-Fear:~$ mplayer dvd://1
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Creating config file: /home/sketch/.mplayer/config
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvd://1.
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
No stream found to handle url dvd://1

Exiting... (End of file)

WITH DVD
sketch@Full-Fear:~$ mplayer dvd://1
#MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvd://1.
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
No stream found to handle url dvd://1

Exiting... (End of file)

oh dear... oh dear... oh dear...

ok so i've been browsing around on ubuntu website and came across this site

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

now it has a fairly strong warning to it but in my situation do you think this is worthwhile?
Also my computer is just over a year old!
it looks promising but i'd prefer to ask people with more experience first

can you give the output of

file /dev/dvd

you should get something like

/dev/dvd: symbolic link to `sr0'

let me know what it says.

Apologies for the delayed replies
i have just made dinner and put my kids to bed

the reply i got from the terminal was
/dev/dvd: symbolic link to `sr0'

which looks the same as what you typed above!

hey guys i don't know if this helps but i went on to the terminal and typed one of the codes above
i just thought this was interesting!!!

sketch@Full-Fear:~$ cat /etc/mtab
/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/sketch/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=sketch 0 0
/dev/sdf1 /media/my\040book vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,flush 0 0
sketch@Full-Fear:~$ /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8,user=YourLogin 0 0
bash: /dev/scd0: Permission denied

Please can you re-post this as a new question to summarise what the troubles are now?
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

Hi :)

Have you been able to test the new Ubuntu 10.04 before it gets officially released?
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/testing/lucid/beta1
Trying it as a LiveCd or as an extra dual/multi-boot would be ideal. Developers and everyone are keen to try to iron out any problems before 10.04 gets officially released so you might find faster & more effective answers to your bug reports which would make 10.04 work better on your system for you

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)