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Totem won't read DVD - I missed something

Asked by John Winterton

Yesterday, I got a working answer to this, but I had to reload my machine because I had a failure with fixing my graphics driver.

I have attached and upgraded the stuff from medibuntu, and put in all the codecs I could remember, but I am missing one key element and I can't find it.

I believe there was a clue in some arcane place in the distribution, maybe in /usr/doc but a general search had no soap.

I am running 10.10 AMD64 version, and I am sure I had this running yesterday.

I think it has to do with the region encoding on the DVD, but can't seem to find any way to set my key or override this lock.

Help, again, please.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

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

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

Which you could have found.

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John Winterton (jwinterton) said : 		#2

 Here's what I got from the console:
sudo apt-get install libdvdread4; sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libdvdread4 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
sudo: /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4: command not found
john@john-GA-MA78LM-S2H:~$ /install-css.sh
bash: /install-css.sh: No such file or directory

Reason being that the mail receiver folded your response. However:

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
--2010-11-09 13:23:58-- http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/maverick/free/binary-amd64/Packages
Resolving packages.medibuntu.org... 88.191.127.22
Connecting to packages.medibuntu.org|88.191.127.22|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8077 (7.9K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `/tmp/dvdcss-ck5s3W/Packages'

100%[======================================>] 8,077 --.-K/s in 0.1s

2010-11-09 13:23:59 (75.4 KB/s) - `/tmp/dvdcss-ck5s3W/Packages' saved [8077/8077]

--2010-11-09 13:23:59-- http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.3medibuntu1_amd64.deb
Resolving packages.medibuntu.org... 88.191.127.22
Connecting to packages.medibuntu.org|88.191.127.22|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 38080 (37K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/tmp/dvdcss-ck5s3W/libdvdcss.deb'

100%[======================================>] 38,080 34.9K/s in 1.1s

2010-11-09 13:24:00 (34.9 KB/s) - `/tmp/dvdcss-ck5s3W/libdvdcss.deb' saved [38080/38080]

Selecting previously deselected package libdvdcss2.
(Reading database ... 188255 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libdvdcss2 (from .../dvdcss-ck5s3W/libdvdcss.deb) ...
Setting up libdvdcss2 (1.2.10-0.3medibuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

Did work, and the DVD is OK now. Thanks for the link, I didn't have it, and was working on something else.

Your response was right on the money and very timely, thank you.