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cd/DVD don't play in my drives

Asked by M. Barreira

 My CD and DVD drives don't play or read any thing.
But under DISK UTILITY its status saying not supported, But its reading the Model and Firmware versions.
 ATAPI DVD ADH20A4P (its a RW+R DL) thats one the other is GE HL-DT-ST DVD RAM GSA-H55L.
These drives are good they worked with vista but changed to Ubuntu 10.04 its great but I'm going nuts trying fix this problem any one Have tips on this it will be great ..
Thanks ...

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

DVD support, for legal reasons, does not work out of the box in ubuntu.

Assuming you have a licence to run a DVD decryption algorithm, (needed for DVD playback), you need to install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package.

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#2

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

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M. Barreira (lelobarreira) said : 		#3

yes I install all the Restricted formats and nothing solve

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M. Barreira (lelobarreira) said : 		#4

How do you make CD/DVD drives status to be supported...

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M. Barreira (lelobarreira) said : 		#5

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; sudo apt-get -y install libdvdread4; sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh; sudo apt-get -y upgrade

Should do it