DVD Playback

[bobmac]

Up to a few days ago I was able to play DVDs using Kaffeine no problem. I know find that I cannot due to libdvdcss having disappeared. I am unable to locate it using adept or sudo apt-get. Has one of the recent updates from Kubuntu been responsible. A friend is having the same problem. He could and now he can't
bobmac

[Rog131]

Re: DVD Playback

At here:

apt-cache show libdvdcss2

tells:

Package: libdvdcss2
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 264
Maintainer: Philippe Mironov (Ubuntu plf) <mir@freecontrib.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.2.9-1plf3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1)
Conflicts: libdvdcss0.0.1, libdvdcss0.0.2
Description: portable abstraction library for DVD decryption
The libdvdcss library provides a portable abstraction for DVD decryption,
with a simple API to access a DVD device as a block device.
.
This package contains the libdvdcss2 runtime library.

I did get it from here:
libdvdcss2 and w32codecs for Ubuntu
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/12/...cs-for-ubuntu/

Note
Replace breezy with dapper or edgy-plf (page is a bit old ).

[arizonagroovejet]

Re: DVD Playback

Up to a few days ago I was able to play DVDs using Kaffeine no problem. I know find that I cannot due to libdvdcss having disappeared. I am unable to locate it using adept or sudo apt-get. Has one of the recent updates from Kubuntu been responsible. A friend is having the same problem. He could and now he can't
bobmac

Does Kaffeine produce an error message when you try and play a DVD that starts "The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. " by any chance?

I ask because I used be able to play DVDs in Kaffeine then when I tried last night it wouldn't work, producng that error message. The solution was to set the region code on my DVD drive to match the region of the DVD and then deleting the directory ~/.dvdcss. Now I have no idea why that was the solution, but it worked so maybe worth you trying it if you're getting the error I mentioned. Install the regisonset package from the Universe repo, then with the DVD you want to watch in the drive run

$ regionset

and follow the instructions. You may also want to read /usr/share/doc/regionset/README

[bobmac]

Re: DVD Playback

Thanks folk. I resolved the issue by downloading vlc player and pinching the lidvdcss from there.
bobmac

[Bolverk]

Re: DVD Playback

Does Kaffeine produce an error message when you try and play a DVD that starts "The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. " by any chance?

I ask because I used be able to play DVDs in Kaffeine then when I tried last night it wouldn't work, producng that error message. The solution was to set the region code on my DVD drive to match the region of the DVD and then deleting the directory ~/.dvdcss. Now I have no idea why that was the solution, but it worked so maybe worth you trying it if you're getting the error I mentioned. Install the regisonset package from the Universe repo, then with the DVD you want to watch in the drive run

$ regionset

and follow the instructions. You may also want to read /usr/share/doc/regionset/README

I've been trying to get DVD's to play on my new laptop (HP dv5000) for weeks now. I deleted the .dvdcss directory and then installed and ran regionset. Apparently, the region was set incorrectly. DVD's now play fine. Thanks for the info!