Ubuntu 9.10 dvd

[cema]

It can play dvd with the preinstalled Totem media player, or easily downloadable Videolan VLC player (or many others). However, for legal reasons, they cannot preinstall css descrambling codecs, which have to be downloaded and installed by the user. Should be easy enough, though.

Update. Indeed, a search for how to play dvd in ubuntu 9.10 immediately returned http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-play-dvd-in-ubuntu-910-karmic.html and http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-make-ubnutu-910-karmic-koala.html which are the deal.

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Recap

[cema.livejournal.com]

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 && sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/./install-css.sh
sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs

In the future, specific versions may be different (it is funny, really, that versions are part of the utility names: css2? read4?). And some of the earlier Ubuntu distributions do work with earlier versions of utilities (libread3, in particular, seems to be used in versions 8.04 and 8.10; I have not tested it).

Re: Recap

[silpol.livejournal.com]

keep in mind Medibuntu is not a silver bullet - they had started e.g. with Skype being delivered but recently has ceased support for variety of reasons (and prevailing has been conflict between closed-source Skype and amount of people assuming they can fix Skype for them), including moving binary packages to staging- repos...

Re: Recap

[cema.livejournal.com]

I know. Not all software installation has to be centralized (although it does make it easier).

I think I may have lost audio after the most recent system update. That would be very inconvenient.