Rush Hour 3 Dvd Won"t Play

[SirPaPa]

Hello, I hope someone here may be able to help me. I just got "RUSH HOUR 3" on dvd today but, it won't play.

I've tried Totem and VLC.

In Totem, it'll play the previews on the start but won't go to the menu.

In VLC it didn't play anything. I've been able to play every dvd movie with Ubuntu up til' now.

InTotem it gives me the attached screenshot message.

Also it plays fine in Windows.

Any thoughts would be most appreciated.

Thank, you.

[p_quarles]

So, are you trying to play an encrypted dvd without libdvdcss?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

[noynac]

Rush Hour 3 employs a new form of copy protection that makes the DVD unreadable by many PC's. The error message that you received is the one that occurs with the new copy protection. Have you tried playing the disk on on a standalone DVD player?

[SirPaPa]

Originally Posted by noynac Rush Hour 3 employs a new form of copy protection that makes the DVD unreadable by many PC's. The error message that you received is the one that occurs with the new copy protection. Have you tried playing the disk on on a standalone DVD player?

Thank you for your help. Yes, it does play on a standalone DVD player.

It also plays on my second (slave) drive which is Windows XP on the same computer but,

not on the (master) drive where Ubuntu is installed.

[SirPaPa]

Thank,you for such a quick reply. The answer to your question is no.

I have everything needed to play dvd's, this particular dvd movie ( at least my install of Ubuntu) won,t play.


Every other dvd that I've popped in my Ubuntu box works fine.

Any other thoughts ? Anyone?

Thank,you.


Whoops slow reply on my behalf.

[noynac]

Rush Hour 3

[wammin]

I am having the exact same problem with the same DVD, Rush Hour 3. I definitely have the latest libdvdcss2 installed ... every other DVD that I have ever got from Netflix plays fine ... except this one. I tried VLC and Mplayer, both choke when getting to the DVD Menu (the previews play ok).

I guess it must be some kind of new copy protection. Anyone have a workaround? Sadly, I don't have a "normal" dvd player anymore to watch it on.

[(((X)))]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...light=play+dvd

xine may work.

[mc4man]

The recent new line cinema titles and possibly some universal studios (german releases) will not play back using free open source unlicensed players but will work with commercial licensed players like powerdvd, windvd, and for linux lindvd. I believe the free wmp player in vista cannot play these either.

[drazmo]

The movie "Shoot Em Up" has the same protection. I was able to play it using VLC from the instructions on this site "http://tobias.rautenkranz.ch/libdvdread_ifo.html.en" using Knoppmyth. I need to get it working with mplayer but have failed. VLC was able to play the movie downloading the libdvdnav.so.4.0.0 from this site and running the command listed. The site states it can be done with mplayer but I don't understand how to get it done in ubuntu. Hope this helps!