playing retail DVD

[kbunt]

I am unable to play a DVD in Kaffeine. When I try, the 'Kaffeine codec installer' starts (never seen this before, 'must be new) and gives a message 'codec not found' (big shock there).

LibDVDCSS (http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html) is about to be installed, it allows you to watch encrypted DVD videos. This is illegal in some countries which require decryption to be authorised by the copyright holder. Do you want to install this package?

I am not using KDE 4.

I know about libdvdcss creating problems and needing to be installed in order to play dvds. Actually, to be honest, I went to my Kubuntu install hoping to play my DVD. I cannot get it to play in Debian even though I have libdvdcss and win32codecs installed.

Edit: I tried:

$ sudo apt-get install LibDVDCSS2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package LibDVDCSS2

I'm not sure what to do or whether a repository has to be 'included.' If so, which one?

I suspect this topic has been posted before but if someone could humour me by providing the answer or suggest what I might try/do?

I think there should be a sticky and/or FAQ for this topic, imho. Perhaps, they can't but maybe someone could post it to their blog? :-/

[Qqmike]

Re: playing retail DVD

HOWTO: Get commercial DVD playback in Kaffeine - FF, GG, and HH w/KDE 3 and 4
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3086749.0

[dibl]

Re: playing retail DVD

Did you set up the Medibuntu repository? I think that's where you get that codec.

http://www.medibuntu.org/

EDIT: Mike wins the "Fastest Finger" award for the evening!

[MoonRise]

Re: playing retail DVD

Did you set up the Medibuntu repository? I think that's where you get that codec.

http://www.medibuntu.org/

EDIT: Mike wins the "Fastest Finger" award for the evening!

Just to confirm...Medibuntu worked for me!

[Qqmike]

Re: playing retail DVD

"EDIT: Mike wins the "Fastest Finger" award for the evening!"

'bout time I came in win, with you place, and MoonRise show.

[MoonRise]

Re: playing retail DVD

[kbunt]

Re: playing retail DVD

I followed everything on this page:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-mp...rdy-heron.html

Oh yeah, I should mention, I have no sound either (bangs head on wall - but not too hard).

[kbunt]

Re: playing retail DVD

No one even cares about my progress?!?

Well, I finally got it to work. You should have seen the way Kubuntu was behaving though! What does it mean when it fails to load and is stuck on the graphical 'Kubuntu' screen? I think an 'apt-get update' borked my X Server. I finally got it to boot but X wouldn't work and it would go to a shell. I decided to run the 'recover' option in the grub menu for Kubuntu and I guess something was fixed because all was well. I now have sound and can watch a DVD (retail) movie in Kubuntu if I want (well, Kaffeine works so far).

I would like to ask a somewhat unrelated question, though. I will ask here but should I ask in another section?

I want to know how to recover my X Server if the 'recover' option doesn't work and how do I contend with any Nvidia driver (install version) issue when I upgrade or update? I understand that each time you upgrade the kernel (in any way?), any video drivers (e.g. Nvidia) will get screwed up and then X will be borked. I am inexperienced with this issue so I really don't know how to fix it. I think there is a method to allow the Nvidia driver to deal with kernel upgrades but it's only a guess... I'm not sure and if there is a way, I don't know what it is or what you have to do.

P.S. Thanks for the instructions and answers. Next time, I'll use your Medibuntu pages. They look more 'official' and better supported.