Can't play DVD (Codec not found)

[Guest]

Help -please
I've tried to install libdvdcss using Adept, it made no change. I am using Kubuntu 8.08 on a ThinkPad R61.

I get the following message:
Codec not found
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?

At this address http://kubuntu.org/packages/libdvdcss-i386.deb the following message appears:
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404Codec not found
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?

At this address http://kubuntu.org/packages/libdvdcss-i386.deb the following message appears:
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404

I am new to Linux, so be patient please.


Ulf

[jankushka]

Re: Can't play DVD (Codec not found)

there's a bunch of stuff that's not installed by default in *ubuntu.
legal issues.

there's a few steps that need to be carried out after a fresh installation
in order to get an environment with all the usual stuff working.

one such step is to add the medibuntu repository to your system,
so that you can have access to such things as:
- windows codecs
- libdvdcss2
- acrobat reader
- google earth
- ...
and other useful software

start a konsole and enter the following commands:

sudo wget [url]http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list[/url] -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

to add the medibuntu repository

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

to add the medibuntu authentication key

after that, through your package manager (i.e. adept),
look for the following packages:
- non-free-codecs
- libdvdcss2
and install them

you don't need to restart the system.
you should now be able to decrypt your dvds...

hth

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't play DVD (Codec not found)

HOWTO: Get commercial DVD playback in Kaffeine