Looking for a DVD player that works

ANY media player can play DVD if you use this command:

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

Ubuntu isn't dumb like windows and uses a CENTRAL storage of codecs, once a codec is added,ANY player can play ANY media type. So movie player (aka Totem) will be ableto play DVD disks as good as Dragon PLayer as good as VLC.

Forgive me, but it has been many years since I worked with CLI commands. Where do I need to go to input the command? And how do I make sure I have the codecs I need?

Press CTRL+ALT+T and paste the whole lot there as ONE

Again, forgive me. I should have included the error messages I got. Being a vintage computer tech, I should have known to include them.

When trying to access a DVD with Gnome Mplayer I get the following:

Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

When I try to open the DVD with movie player I get this error message:

Could not read from resource

Dragon player just keeps spinning the DVD with no message or startup.

That's fine, the nvidia thing its just a warning.

Still not able to get the DVDs to play. Any thoughts?

Bill Griffin

Griffins Organics

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--- On Mon, 3/14/11, actionparsnip <email address hidden> wrote:

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Subject: Re: [Question #148990]: Looking for a DVD player that works
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Date: Monday, March 14, 2011, 6:04 PM

Your question #148990 on software-center in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+question/148990

    Status: Open => Answered

actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
That's fine, the nvidia thing its just a warning.

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Hm. Maybe we can get more informative answers from the command line. (GUI apps can be a bit unhelpful in this regard.) First, figure out the device name for your DVD drive; it's probably /dev/dvd or something like that. (Run 'ls /dev/dvd*' and 'ls /dev/cd*' to see if you can find it.) Then run the following, replacing the device name with the one you found:

mplayer dvd:////dev/dvd

You should get some much more informative information about wht's not working; paste it in here and we'll see what we can unravel.

Here is what the terminal mode output was:

MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
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:////dev/dvdrw.
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
************************************************
**                                            **
**  No css library available. See             **
**  /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/README.Debian  **
**  for more information.                     **
**                                            **
************************************************
libdvdread: Could not open input: No medium found
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvdrw for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvdrw (No medium found)
No stream found to handle url dvd:////dev/dvdrw

Exiting... (End of file)

BTW, my devices are showing as dev/dvd  dev/dvdrw for the dvd and dev/cdrom  dev/cdrw for the cd input.

Bill Griffin

Griffins Organics

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--- On Sat, 3/19/11, Adam Buchbinder <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Adam Buchbinder <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #148990]: Looking for a DVD player that works
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Saturday, March 19, 2011, 10:40 AM

Your question #148990 on software-center in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+question/148990

    Status: Open => Needs information

Adam Buchbinder requested for more information:
Hm. Maybe we can get more informative answers from the command line.
(GUI apps can be a bit unhelpful in this regard.) First, figure out the
device name for your DVD drive; it's probably /dev/dvd or something like
that. (Run 'ls /dev/dvd*' and 'ls /dev/cd*' to see if you can find it.)
Then run the following, replacing the device name with the one you
found:

mplayer dvd:////dev/dvd

You should get some much more informative information about wht's not
working; paste it in here and we'll see what we can unravel.

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I found my problem. my libdvdcss2 package did not install properly. I reinstalled it and can now play dvds.