I just performed a fresh install of Ubuntu Mate 16.04 and am trying to restore some of the lost functionality that earlier versions had in dealing with DVDs. The programs I primarily use are k9copy to backup DVD discs, and DeVeDe or DVD Styler to create DVDs.
The original developer of k9copy stopped development some time ago, but the program has been picked up by others and is now "k9copy-reloaded." I found a ppa for it that seems to work:
https://launchpad.net/~tomtomtom/+archive/ubuntu/k9copy
However, when k9copy is installed, the package "libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56" is uninstalled and "libavcodec-ffmpeg56" is installed in its place. (I assume this means there will be fewer codecs available to ffmpeg.)
DeVeDe is in the standard Ubuntu repositories. However, if an attempt is made to install that, Synaptic (or apt-get) wants to remove libavcodec-ffmpeg56 that was pulled in by k9copy and replace it with libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56. If this is done k9copy will also be removed.
Is there any way to resolve this such that both k9copy and DeVeDe can coexist and the extra codecs will be available? (Seems like it should be possible for k9copy to work with the "extras" codec package if that is a superset of the standard package. But it insists on having the less functional codec package installed. )Code:# apt-get install devede Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libavcodec-extra libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 Suggested packages: mencoder The following packages will be REMOVED: k9copy libavcodec-ffmpeg56 The following NEW packages will be installed: devede libavcodec-extra libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 2 to remove and 12 not upgraded. Need to get 5,509 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,009 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort.
I have not found a place yet to obtain DVD Styler binaries compatible with 16.04. I did find and install the Bombono DVD authoring program but am not familiar with it and don't know yet how it will work out.
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