Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto

[ubuntu-freak]

Hi ubuntu-freak, Just wanted to say even though I don't post much in your thread, you have and are a wealth of information. This thread is like my bible to multimedia and video how to. Ok enough of the sucking up . My question is the last few times I have installed Vlc and follwed your tutorial, everything works the only thing is that when I insert a DVD the Vlc full screen comes up (that's good) then when I hit play I get this window http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/...screenshot.png then I have to click on the disk tab, check if DVD is picked (which it is always) then hit play. I don't remember having to do all them moves before!. I'm using Lubuntu 12.04. I remember inserting the DVD and Vlc coming on and starting the movie. Am I right with that statement or am I on drugs. What do you think. I'm going to check my 10.04 install and see what it does.
Thanks in advance for your help
borunco

Yes, the movie should play automatically. Seems like the disc isn't being recognised as a playback DVD. Not sure how I can help you at the moment.

Which package asks for approval for " Configuring ttf-mscorefonts-installer "? It won't accept any input.

I have the same problem using 11.10. The EULA agreement has an <ok> at the bottom which is unuseable. Terminal window now sitting there doing nothing.

From the howto:

"Accept or reject any EULAs using the tab and enter keys."

When I tried the global install command from the first post I got an error message about not being able to find ruby ripper and then it exited (I have added Medibuntu and installed the getdeb passage).

I edited the command to remove ruby ripper from the list and the rest are currently installing, I'll chase up ruby ripper later.

Not a problem for me but a complete newbie might get stopped for a while by the unavailability of rr...

Seems pretty available to me:

http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu.../?q=rubyripper

Currently available from Getdeb for three versions of Ubuntu.

Nathan

[Borunco]

Yes, the movie should play automatically. Seems like the disc isn't  being recognised as a playback DVD. Not sure how I can help you at the  moment.

Thanks, ubuntu freak . I haven't had time to mess with it some more, but will get it.
borunco

[RockinRob2258]

I had a simple problem with your guide entitled "Comprehensive Multimedia and Video Howto" that was resolved by simply executing "sudo apt-get update". You might want to add a line that users should run update before executing the massive command that gets everything for their particular flavor of ubuntu. I knew to try updating, but a brand new linux user may not.

[freeseofsd]

thank for sharing information keep update it

[FakeOutdoorsman]

You might want to add a line that users should run update before executing the massive command that gets everything for their particular flavor of ubuntu

Unfortunately keeping guides updated has recently hit a major obstacle since posts older than 24 hours can not be edited without first gaining the permission of a forum moderator. This is apparently due to spam issues but makes it very inconvenient to keep posts like this one up to date (or at least it was for me).

[mediax]

Just a quick post to say thanks for (IMHO) the most useful thread on this entire site! I use it every time I re-install Ubuntu and it saves me so much time and grief retweaking things.

I too had a problem with ruby ripper not installing when I cut and pasted your command, but that's easy enough to sort separately.

[EDIT: Sorted very easily by running

sudo apt-get update

and then retrying

sudo apt-get install rubyripper

]

Thanks again, and keep up the fantastic work!

[ubuntu-freak]

I had a simple problem with your guide entitled "Comprehensive Multimedia and Video Howto" that was resolved by simply executing "sudo apt-get update". You might want to add a line that users should run update before executing the massive command that gets everything for their particular flavor of ubuntu. I knew to try updating, but a brand new linux user may not.

I presumed a background apt-get update would execute after the Getdeb and Playdeb packages are installed to add the repos. Anywho, I may abandon this howto as the rules on post editing mean I can't freely edit and update it when necessary. I asked a few weeks ago via PM if I could be given a time slot to edit the howto and never received a reply. I'm not interested in begging the forum gods for permission to edit my 4-year-old howto and it's not as important as it used to be anyway, so perhaps not worth fighting with the gods over.

Cheers for the support and help with tweaking the howto over the years everyone.

Nathan

[ads52]

It would be a great shame if 4 years of work ended in this fashion, is there no other way?

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Anywho, I may abandon this howto as the rules on post editing mean I can't freely edit and update it when necessary.

I did the same.

Cheers for the support and help with tweaking the howto over the years everyone.

Nathan

Thank you for your work on this. You have helped many users.

[arizonalarry2]

First line of this thread, I did this to add the Medibuntu repo-

sudo -E wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo sed -i "/^# deb .*partner/ s/^# //" /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get -y --force-yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu && sudo apt-get update


And got this in return-


--2012-09-03 22:34:48-- http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/maverick.list
Resolving www.medibuntu.org... 88.191.127.22
Connecting to www.medibuntu.org|88.191.127.22|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2012-09-03 22:34:49 ERROR 404: Not Found.