I just set up a fresh box, here's what worked well to take care of dvd/cd playback for any ver. of ubuntu. (none of the default stuff at bottom is for kubuntu)
Run in order
Code:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
Code:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update
Edit: if the code to add medibuntu doesn't work (shows errors in terminal) then use an alt. method (at times you can't add it with wget)
go to system -> administration -> software sources -> third party
click add and add these two lines one at a time
Code:
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free
Code:
deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free
Then exit out, clicking the reload tab when prompted
You can then try the get key line from above or don't worry about it and
when you install the packages if an unauthenticated line comes up just choose yes
do run sudo apt-get update in any event
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Then run
Code:
sudo apt-get install vlc libdvdcss2 ubuntu-restricted-extras w32codecs
Thats it.
To add the better totem-xine player
Code:
sudo apt-get install totem-xine
(to set as a default choice see here, read thru mplayer part and see edit
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...03#post5633803
edit : the libdvdread3/install-css.sh thing is somewhat outdated, much better to get your libs, codecs and players from medibuntu. In the rare case the current libdvdcss2 doesn't work for your system then that's an option
Strongly suggested to add vlc as a default choice or at least set the launcher command for vlc to vlc %m or vlc %f as here (just for ubuntu as far as default - for xubuntu go to removable drives and media and replace totem %m with vlc %m ) (note that's a space between vlc and %m
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...40#post4986640
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Originally Posted by keenboy
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