Audio/video doesn't match up playing a DVD, choppy

Asked by Loraine A. Baird

I have downloaded the restricted-extras and it was suggested to me that I download the medibuntu package, which I did, to play DVDs, but the audio and video do not match and the video is choppy. What am I missing?

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Rached ALAYA (rached.alaya) said :
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I think that you didn't install w32codecs correctly
1- add medibuntu to menu.lists
 1.1 : open a terminal and tape : sudo gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
 then add this at the end of file :
 ## medibuntu
 deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ intrepid free non-free
2- now, return to the termina and tape :
wget -q http://fr.packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
3- tape : sudo apt-get update
4- sudo apt-get upgrade
5- sudo apt-get install w32codecs

You can also look for the w32codecs with synaptic manager (system->administration->synaptic manager)

Good Luck :)

PS : if you are using hardy, just change this line : deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ intrepid free non-free by deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

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Best Ankur Banerjee (ankurb) said :
#2

You could also install VLC Media Player from Add/remove and see if that performs better.

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Loraine A. Baird (quicheloraine) said :
#3

Thank you both! It says I have all of the codecs, and I just downloaded and tried the VLC Media Player, and it works great! Thank you so much!

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Loraine A. Baird (quicheloraine) said :
#4

Thanks Ankur Banerjee, that solved my question.

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Ankur Banerjee (ankurb) said :
#5

Always a pleasure to help.

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Rached ALAYA (rached.alaya) said :
#6

I also suggest to install smplayer from the add/remove, it's a great player.
I am happy that you solved your problrm and thanks Loraine :)