EasyUbuntu

DVD player

Asked by vincewebb

Hello
I downloaded EasyUbuntu in order to play DVDs on an Ubuntu 6.06 system.

It downloaded and runs OK but I am left a bit in the dark as to what I am meant to see. I check boxes, it goes away and does stuff. Later on I reload EasyUbuntu to try the same again, the boxes I checked are not checked, I check them again and click OK but it does not enable me to play a DVD?

In the Multimedia tab I check various of the 4 entries always includingthe one for libdvdcss. I click OK and off it goes. The terminal window from which I started shows the following:

vok@t30ubu:~/easyubuntu$ ./launchEU.sh
['/usr/sbin/synaptic', '--hide-main-window', '--non-interactive', '-o=dir::etc=/home/vince/easyubuntu/conf', '-o=dir::etc::sourcelist=sources.list']
In update ['/usr/sbin/synaptic', '--hide-main-window', '--non-interactive', '-o=dir::etc=/home/vince/easyubuntu/conf', '-o=dir::etc::sourcelist=sources.list', '--update-at-startup']
In Install ['/usr/sbin/synaptic', '--hide-main-window', '--non-interactive', '-o=dir::etc=/home/vince/easyubuntu/conf', '-o=dir::etc::sourcelist=sources.list', '--set-selections']

When I try to play a DVD Totem displays the following error:
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Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because you do not have the appropriate plugins to handle it.
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The DVD is region 2 although I doubt that makes any difference.

Any ideas ?

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Andrew Waldram (andrew-waldram) said : 		#1

there doesn't appear to be a gstreamer plugin to support dvd reading so try the following.

install xine and xine-ui
in settings change the raw device to /dev/dvd

As our ilustrious developer havn't given us raw devices.

misssing in udev scripts

if you need a bit more performance google search making raw devices should really be set up in udev rule but this'll probably get you going

e.g

modprobe raw
mkdir /dev/raw
mknod /dev/raw/raw1 c 162 1
raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/dvd
ln -s /dev/dvd /dev/raw/raw1
may ahve error above as this was off the top of my head

then change xine settings back to rdvd

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vincewebb (vincewebb) said : 		#2

Andrew, thanks for your response.

You say "in settings change the raw device to /dev/dvd"

In what settings ?

Are you advocating I use the Xine front end in place of Totem ?

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KarlGoetz (kgoetz) said : 		#3

Hi vok,
try the latest version of easyubuntu, and see if it works better.
if this ticket is resolved/no longer needed feel free to mark it as such.