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installed Movie Player will not play my Netflix disk

Asked by Stephen Taylor

I am new to Ubuntu/Linux so please bare with me. I put a Netflix movie DVD in the drive but when I tried to start it, in Movie Player, I got the error message: "an error occurred, could not read from resource." In the description of Movie Player it sounds like it should play all DVD types. All of the Gstreamer files are installed on ver. 10.10. What do I need to do? Is there another DVD player I could use?

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Theodotos Andreou (theodotos) said : 		#1

Can you try installing vlc? Try with this one and give us any errors you may see.

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Stephen Taylor (1sgskt) said : 		#2

Thanks Theodotos. Like I said, I am new to this. I could not find "vic" in
the list from the software center. How do I find and then install it?

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Stephen Taylor (1sgskt) said : 		#3

Oops,I put my glasses on and read vLc, which I did find and will install.

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Theodotos Andreou <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #138740 on software-center in ubuntu changed:
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> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+question/138740
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> Status: Open => Answered
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> Theodotos Andreou proposed the following answer:
> Can you try installing vlc? Try with this one and give us any errors you
> may see.
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Stephen Taylor (1sgskt) said : 		#4

VLC gives me AUDIO_TLS and VIDEO_TLS and then all the files in each directery but will not auto_play the disc menu.

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#5

For legal reasons, ubuntu cannot support DVD playback out of the box (they have to pay royalties to the DVD consortium).

Assuming you have a licence to use DVD playback software (this does not come with DVD purchase, but could be argued to come with your drive.. maybe.), install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats#Playing%20Restricted%20Formats

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souprebel (souprebel) said : 		#6

I have the same error can not read from resource on Totem
I installed VLC and still no play
I was going to install the restricted package but it comes up saying to install libraries must be deleted Ffmpeg codec library 50 and utility library 52
Is this right ? or ...

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souprebel (souprebel) said : 		#7

I was just trying to play Karate kid and videos that I could normally play before ubuntu

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Best Theodotos Andreou (theodotos) said : 		#8

Besides ubuntu-restricted-extras and ubuntu-restricted-addons you may need to install the libdvdcss2 package. From Terminal try this:

  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 libdvdcss2

The first command will add the medibuntu repository in your sources and the other will download the CSS library. Maybe the CD you need is CSS encoded which couls explain why you cannot play it.

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Stephen Taylor (1sgskt) said : 		#9

Thanks Theodotos Andreou, that solved my question.

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Stephen Taylor (1sgskt) said : 		#10

Theodotos and Mycae, the combination of the RistrictedFormats, libdvdcss2 and the VLC player solved my movie dvd problems. Movies play beautifully now.

Thank you so much for the help in understanding and resolving this frustrating problem. Ubuntu community is the BEST!

Stephen