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replacing a cdrom drive with a dvd player

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replaced my cdrom player after installing ubuntu but my dvd player won't play. Do I need drivers for this and where do I find them? drive is a lite on writer. I also put another dvd player in, neither plays dvd's.

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williamts99 (williamts99) said : 		#1

Some media formats are what we call Restricted. There are patent and copyright restrictions which complicate the ability of a free operating system to distribute software that will support proprietary or non-free formats. This includes wmv, aac, wma, avi, divx, mp3, Quicktime, RealMedia, and encrypted DVDs among others.

It is very easy to enable the playing of these non-free formats following the directions on the Restricted Formats page.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

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Williamts99

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