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    Playing DVDs ?

    The wife has some yoga DVDs she would like to play in the back room on her computer.
    Kubuntu 18.04
    Dell Optiplex 990 64 bit.

    She's not a computer expert so what she would like is to be able to just put the disc in the DVD payer/burner and have it take off.

    I've read some pages that suggest how to do this and tried their suggestions but nothing has worked yet. The closest I have gotten is to put the disc in and open VLC and hit play.
    It almost worked but it was all green and weird looking and no audio.

    I did find and article called...
    How to Play DVD in Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04 and 14.04
    Which said to issue the following commands in the terminal

    sudo apt install libdvd-pkg
    sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg

    It's located at...
    https://itsfoss.com/play-dvd-ubuntu-1310/

    Close but no cigar.

    Anyone know how to make this work?

    Greg
    W9WD

    #2
    It's been a minute since I played any DVDs on my PC, but I have these on it:
    Code:
    john@john-Desktop:/etc/modprobe.d$ dpkg -l *dvd*
    Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
    | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
    |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
    ||/ Name                    Version          Architecture     Description
    +++-=======================-================-================-====================================================
    ii  dvd+rw-tools            7.1-12           amd64            DVD+-RW/R tools
    un  libdvdcss2              <none>           <none>           (no description available)
    ii  libdvdnav4:amd64        6.0.0-1          amd64            DVD navigation library
    ii  libdvdread4:amd64       6.0.0-1          amd64            library for reading DVDs
    Might be useful ...
    EDIT: All are found in the universe repo:
    Code:
    john@john-Desktop:/etc/modprobe.d$ sudo apt-cache policy dvd+rw-tools
    [sudo] password for john: 
    dvd+rw-tools:
     Installed: 7.1-12
     Candidate: 7.1-12
     Version table:
    *** 7.1-12 500
           500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
    john@john-Desktop:/etc/modprobe.d$ sudo apt-cache policy libdvdnav4:amd64
    libdvdnav4:
     Installed: 6.0.0-1
     Candidate: 6.0.0-1
     Version table:
    *** 6.0.0-1 500
           500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
    john@john-Desktop:/etc/modprobe.d$ sudo apt-cache policy libdvdread4:amd64
    libdvdread4:
     Installed: 6.0.0-1
     Candidate: 6.0.0-1
     Version table:
    *** 6.0.0-1 500
           500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
    Last edited by jglen490; Feb 04, 2020, 08:36 PM.
    The next brick house on the left
    Intel i7 11th Gen | 16GB | 1TB | KDE Plasma 5.27.11​| Kubuntu 24.04 | 6.8.0-31-generic



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      #3
      I got libdvdcss2 here

      https://pkgs.org/download/libdvdcss2
      Constant change is here to stay!

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        #4
        I checked both her and my computers and we have all those files installed.
        I tried to play her yoga dvd on my computer and got the same green weird flickering picture, but good audio.
        I think now that it is a copy protection scheme on that particular disk.

        I tried to play a disk that was recorded by a friend of mine and it played fine. No copy protection.
        I guess she will just not be able to play that disk.

        Thanks for the effort boys.

        Greg
        W9WD

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          #5
          I did some more reading on the problem and found SimpleBurn mentioned a few times. So I installed that and made a video file on the Desktop that she can just click on and it plays.
          She's happy and that makes me happy.

          She has 3 of these DVDs so as I rip them I will rename them Yoga 1, Yoga 2, Yoga 3.
          Greg
          W9WD

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            #6
            Alright!!

            Good research, great solution.
            The next brick house on the left
            Intel i7 11th Gen | 16GB | 1TB | KDE Plasma 5.27.11​| Kubuntu 24.04 | 6.8.0-31-generic



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              #7
              I also think you may need to install kubuntu-restricted-extras. I do it as a matter of course so don't remember exactly.
              Constant change is here to stay!

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                #8
                Originally posted by GregM View Post
                I did some more reading on the problem and found SimpleBurn mentioned a few times. So I installed that and made a video file on the Desktop that she can just click on and it plays.
                She's happy and that makes me happy.

                She has 3 of these DVDs so as I rip them I will rename them Yoga 1, Yoga 2, Yoga 3.
                While I don't have a need for this at the moment, it seems like something I need to bookmark, and I am. Thanks for sharing your research.

                Mick
                "Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas."
                Hunter S. Thompson

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