On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, m0gely wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:09:32 -0800 > From: m0gely <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>, > "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] CD/DVD Drive and Movie Software: Xubuntu-9.04 > > Rich Shepard wrote: >> There's a cd/dvd drive in the Toshiba Satellite. Inserting a movie dvd is >> easy: press the button on the drawer and it opens. After that it gets rather >> screwy. >> >> On the Applications->Multimedia menu is something called Movie Player. >> When that is invoked it opens a large window, then displays a message box >> that it's missing all requisite plug-ins (!). Strange. Doesn't tell me >> what's missing nor do I understand why they'd be missing in a clean >> installation. >> >> Thinking I could get past this I used the synaptic package manager to get >> and install mplayer. However, when I try to play the disk in the drive I see >> messages that there's something about the disk, or too many buffers are >> loaded, and the mplayer window shows a psycadelic display of colored bars in >> several vertical strips from the bottom of the window up. So I kill that >> process and try to remove the disk by opening the drive door. >> >> At this point a serious message box pops up with text that the drive is >> not recogzined by HAL and must have been installed by aliens or something. >> Never have seen any such reaction before. Need to resort to the straightened >> paper clip to open the drive and remove the disk. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas why both the software and the hardware are >> acting as they are? > > Does the DVD have some advanced copy protection that could be > interfering? Does it play on another computer? I use VLC for anything > video related. I know people that swear by mplayer and that's fine, but > it seems to take some extra tinkering that VLC doesn't. > > -- > m0gely
Seconded, VLC rocks. Or use ogle, which is a nice, direct way to play a DVD. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
