Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto

[Ichido]

I've tried everything but my 9.10 will not play Factory DVDs
It will play my 'DVD X-COPY' Copies!
When I boot from my PUPPY-4.3 USB Drive, I can Play Factory and Copies of DVDS with the gxine that is in Puppy!
I followed the instructions from ubuntu-freak's post "Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto, REVISED ON SATURDAY 28TH NOVEMBER, 2009".
I have Un-installed then reinstalled xgine, gine, VLC, Totem Movie Player, MMovie Player and rebooted, but still no Factory DVD play.
Any advice please?

[jimbob]

What messages do you get?

Have you tried VLC player at all?

[Ichido]

What messages do you get?

Have you tried VLC player at all?

I have tried xgine, gine, VLC, Totem Movie Player, MMovie Player.

The Error Messages from VLC are "Cannot Read Disc", "Cannot Decrypt Disc", "Check to see if disc is blank".

xgine, Movie Player and MMovie Player just Freeze everything and I have to Power-Off and Reboot.

Puppy WILL play both the Factory & Copied Discs with xgine!

Ubuntu WILL only play my Copies.

The same Laptop Playedf Both Factory And Cpoied DVD using 8.04, 8.10 & 9.04!

[Ichido]

What messages do you get?

Have you tried VLC player at all?

Yes, see my posts.

[jimbob]

Check and see if you have libdvdcss2, libdvdnav4 and libdvdread4 installed.

[Ichido]

Check and see if you have libdvdcss2, libdvdnav4 and libdvdread4 installed.

Have *nav4 and *resd4 but missing *css2.
Installed libdvdcss2 and Presto, It Works!
Many Thanks to jimbob !!!

Please Mark Solved.

[voscom]

Thank you reassuringlyoffensive,
your tutorial is really perfectly done!

[haddog]

Great post

[ubuntubrian]

From Sodear's post from January-the same problem that I have. Firefox-3.6 in Karmic 64bit:

After following your instruction for playing streaming video, I returned to the point 'click here' which brought up a QuickTime trailer page: but could not play any of them. A bar would appear below the video screen and would appear to be loading till 100% but then the play button had no effect. Another set of control buttons, more or less grayed out with a run arrow also appeared below, but no joy there either.

I get the controls and a window in which the quicktime vid should play and nothing happens. I can click the controls but nothing, no matter how long I wait for it to load.
Any help?

[ubuntubrian]

I installed mozilla-mplayer as per the how-to and tried again and now I get the mplayer embedded player when I try an Apple trailer. However, clicking on play shows the playlist loading and then "stopped". I can play this test quicktime movie:

http://mac.sillydog.org/qt/mov/embed_s3.php
but the other 2 test movies on the page will not play.

Maybe this means something?