There are more problems with playing DVD's as I thought before. Many of
my DVD's (region 2) will not play at all in 64-bit Lubuntu 14.04 with
any of the media players (VLC, Parole) though I had downloaded the
available codecs files from the Lubuntu software center .
Switching to 32-bit Mint 16 with LXDE desktop (which is also on the same
PC) , all DVD's so far can be started if VLC is selected from the autorun.
It looks that I need to file a bug report.
Henk Terhell schreef op 19-4-2014 17:50:
Thanks Irael for your help.
Israel schreef op 19-4-2014 14:17:
Hi,
On 04/18/2014 05:06 PM, Henk Terhell wrote:
Happy to have installed 14.04 now on my desktop and old laptop but
upgrading from 12.04 was not very smooth. Only a complete overwrite
worked out OK. On my laptop I forgot to put the wireless connection
on when upgrading to 14.04 ( I assumed I could do this afterward)
and had to reinstall again as I couldn't find a way to find the router.
Sorry you encountered the issue. Unfortunately I do not know how to
answer this, though a bug report might help the developers. It may
be unrelated to Lubuntu specifically, and be more related to your
wireless card.
Now I understand it was related to the missing nm-applet, so no
further action is needed.
There is a problem with media playing in 14.04 which I hadn't notice
in 12.04: VLC player won't start a CD or DVD until it is ejected
first from PCManFM in the left column.
Do you have PCManFM handle mounting volumes automatically? I found
using thunar --daemon in my startup applications worked well for
autoplaying DVDs when I insert them, but unfortunately PCManFM
doesn't yet have the ability to automatically open a program when
media is inserted.
Yes, mounting devices automatically seems to be on. I have installed
thunar now. Most useful as indeed it does show all tracks of the
CD/DVD from which you can start VLC and it actually works, Clicking on
the individual wav files from within PCManFM causes an error message
in VLC.
Also VLC won't start when a CD or DVD was present at start-up
although BIOS is set to boot from the hard disk. With BIOS setting
at CD/DVD reading first, the system won't even boot when a movie DVD
is present, but that is a handicap quickly learned to overcome.
Reinstalling VLC didn't solve anything
Henk
The system not booting when a movie is in seems to be a firmware
issue for your BIOS, it seems unlikely that this issue is related to
Lubuntu. Did this used to work, but now is broken?
Not sure, but after resetting the BIOS to boot from hard disk there
are still sometimes crashes in starting up the system when a disk is
present in the tray, so I should avoid that. I had not seen this
before nor does it show up in starting mint 16/LXDE from grub. But
also in mint 16 the problem exists that vlc cannot be restarted unless
after playing the disk is ejected first either manually or from
PCManFM, so that likely is an issue of this file manager.
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