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Totem Refuses To Play DVD... How Can I Fix It?

Asked by taurus

I got ubuntu 8.04 and When I try to play a movie in Totem, I get the following error message:

"An Error Occured. Could not read from resource."

Why is this hapening? How do I fix this?

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Daniel Schwitzgebel (schwitzd) said : 		#1

maybe i need the codec install the package ubuntu-restricted-extras

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Best Lawrence H. Bulk (lhbcomm) said : 		#2

Go to your Synaptics Package Manager and, in the search box, type in "gstreamer" and, when all the components are displayed, select each and every one of them. Mark them all for installation, as well as all the sub-programs which come up, download and install them. (There are a LOT of them so this whole process will take some time.)

After that's all done, go here: < http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/ > and select for downloading both the next-to-last and the last application (x-bzip and x-gzip). (The reason I'm telling you to download both is that I do not remember which one works.) Try them both to see which one is appropriate. One of them will install "libdvdcss2" on your machine and this is absolutely necessary, along with all the gstreamer components, in order to play commercial DVDs.

I hope this is of some help to you.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#3

Hello

Some encrypted dvd's too require regionset

Refer this link

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

Regards

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taurus (taurusxz) said : 		#4

Problem solved. I needed to install a codec.

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taurus (taurusxz) said : 		#5

Thanks Lawrence H. Bulk, that solved my question.

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marcelle (elinedebot) said : 		#6

Hi,
I ran into the same problem as Taurus that totem gives an error when wanting to play a dvd. I tried to follow Lawrences advice, but i run into a little problem.

Quote: 'After that's all done, go here: < http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/ > and select for downloading both the next-to-last and the last application (x-bzip and x-gzip). (The reason I'm telling you to download both is that I do not remember which one works.)'

When I do what is described above, I do not know how to download/extract the x-bzip and x-gzip? Can anyone give me an advice on this one? It is probably a very basic Ubuntu skill, but I am new to this. Thanks

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#7

@ marcelle

Please don't append a new question on a already answered or marked as solved question.
Please make new question from here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
you will get better chance to get right answer on a fresh tagged "open" question.
Solved or answered questions are usually not read from answering people.

Thank you