Play dvd

[dwhite]

I've checked for the past several days how to get dvds to play in lubuntu 11.10 and i've reached an impass. i have installed the following:

• lubuntu-restricted-extras
• medibuntu-keyring
• apport-hooks-medibuntu
• libdvdcss2
• libdvdread4

but i can't get MPlayer work

I had linux mint installed on the same system last week and played dvds without any trouble so i know it's not my hardware.

any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks

[Perfect Storm]

Mplayer properly requires that you install windows 32/64 codecs.

Install non-free-codecs

[andrew.46]

Can you play your dvd from the commandline using the following syntax:

mplayer dvd://1

and post the command and full terminal output here? This should give some hints as to what is going on...

edit corrected syntax .

[doctorzeus]

Personally I'm not a fan of mplayer, I by far prefer vlc on all operating systems (it comes pre-bundled with every single video codec and is fairly lightweight):

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html

[Rodney9]

For How-To's, Information and Screen-Casts on Lubuntu go to the
Lubuntu One Stop Thread -

Lubuntu One Stop Thread

Rodney

[dwhite]

thanks for the suggestions, i have downloaded vlc using synaptic pkg manager (following directions on vlc website suggested by doctorzeus as that seemed very promising (when i had linux mint installed that was the player that had worked))

it is not working in this case, i can open the disk and it loads the title into the playlist but when i try to play it title gets bold for a second or so the disk starts to spin up and then abruptly stops.

if there are any diagnostic test i can run i would gladly run it, thanks in advance for any help

i've attached a screen shot from vlc showing the codec details if that helps

[andrew.46]

if there are any diagnostic test i can run i would gladly run it, thanks in advance for any help

Well, there was this suggestion:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...54&postcount=3

.

[dwhite]

Well, there was this suggestion:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...54&postcount=3

.

hi, yes sorry about that, i keep getting the following (see screenshot) error, thought it was me making an error so i was a little hesitant to post, thanks.

ahh here is the info you were looking for..had to put into two separate screenshots hope they are legible.

[andrew.46]

Oops my fault, I have supplied bad syntax! Correct is:

mplayer dvd://1

My apologies

[dwhite]

Oops my fault, I have supplied bad syntax! Correct is:

mplayer dvd://1

My apologies

thanks, i edited my previous post with the screenshots, didn't want to bump my post if i didn't have to.