Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto

[raju50]

Tried with VLC but it just does nothing after the menu screen. The DVD is 'Russell Crowe A Beautiful Mind' by BIG Home Video. Its written Manufactured by:Sony DADC Manufacturing India Pvt. Ltd.

[jamesisin]

That doesn't strike me as being new so have you tried that DVD in other systems/machines?

[raju50]

Yes the DVD played fine in Windows 7. I wonder why there are so many issues with linux when it comes to playing commercial dvds.

[jamesisin]

Is the Windows machine a different box? Can you run the Ubuntu live CD under that box and see what happens (unfortunately this also means running adding the DVD playing packages once you run the live CD)?

[raju50]

Yes the Windows instalation was on a different box. I'm actually using Linux Mint 10 but still can't rum live cd of Linux Mint on that box because my friend won't let me do that.

[raju50]

Yes the Windows installation was on a different box. I'm actually using Linux Mint 10 but still can't run live cd of Linux Mint on that box because my friend won't let me do that.

[jamesisin]

Does your friend understand that running a live CD on a system won't effect that underlying system?

[pastorterrylee]

Thanks for this awesome help. Got me on the right road. You would not happen to be my friend from Seminary now would you?
Terry

[Jenga-kun]

I'm getting this error when I try to install the gecko media player:

james@james-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-mplayer: Depends: mplayer (>= 1.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
mplayer-nogui (>= 1.0~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
james@james-desktop:~$

[ubuntu-freak]

I'm getting this error when I try to install the gecko media player:

james@james-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-mplayer: Depends: mplayer (>= 1.0~) but it is not going to be installed or
mplayer-nogui (>= 1.0~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
james@james-desktop:~$

Did you add the Medibuntu repo to your list of sources? Check that it isn't disabled for some reason. Then perhaps try the commands to fix broken packages etc below the "Essential Packages" section in Part 1.

P.S. Are you trying out Natty?