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laz1904 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:02:48 -0000

Thank you shamanstears for this post and Raven for posting the libdvdread4 change. That did the trick...I struggled for a couple days trying libdvdread3 reading older posts. I had all the Gstreamer plug-ins with the exception of fluendo checked off in Add/Remove programs prior to cutting and pasting the command line above with along with the correction...not sure if that helped but I am officially up and running in Ubuntu Juanty with an old Dell P4 1.8Ghz,...everything works..wireless drivers, printer and now dvd. I may never go back to MSFT. Thanks again.

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k.c — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:29:25 -0000

thank you Raven, just a digit at the end of a string but it meant everything (3 to 4), running jaunty on acer aspire 5920 laptop

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johnnyseeds — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:50:42 -0000

THIS DOESNT WORK! YOU CANNOT DOWNLOAD ANY PROGRAMS FOR LINUX OR INSTALL THEM.

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sig — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:02:52 -0000

No this method does not work either...only reason it works for you cause you have other lib files. but on fresh installs of ubuntu and kubuntu and linuxmint following this information will not read a dvd or detect a dvd in playback

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sig — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:01:26 -0000

as with all the other sites giving this information. it is now outdated and theses steps will not work on installing kubuntu 9.04 or later or linuxmint 7 or later as well.

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jth_128 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:56:29 -0000

You might find that running the following is also needed:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

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Raven — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:00:11 -0000

those commands dont work any more.
you need to change the libdvdread3 to libdvdread4 in both lines and it works great. DVD plays now with no problems.

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jeff — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:32:21 -0000

how do you uninstall this
?????

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Jeans — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:53:04 -0000

Works great! But I had to remove the totem-gstreamer in the Synaptic Pakage Manager to get it working without conflict.

Thanks!

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Netflixs Guy — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:46:50 -0000

Thats good man
i was breaking my head to do that
to make it play back

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Mohamed Sherif — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:33:42 -0000

I am sorry, but this did not work for me. I am using Ubuntu 7.10. Totem keeps telling me "Are you trying to open a coded DVD without libdvdcss?" although that I have them installed.

This is the output from Totem when ran in terminal:

libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.1.7 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/scd0 mounted on /media/cdrom0 for CSS authentication
libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/molpsychist/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions: 1

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000124
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x0000146d
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00001632
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB (0x00001632)!!
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x00206f1c
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB (0x00206f1c)
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x00206f20
libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB (0x00206f20)!!
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 2 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 1
AFD changed from -2 to -1

Can you help me with that? Thank you!

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Paul Valley — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:39:19 -0000

This works Great thanks