I solved the problem in #15. I followed the steps in the following thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1440147.html All the relevant steps to getting DVDs to play in Ubuntu 10.04 seem to be listed in one place there. Unfortunately for me it was a long process of trial and error rather than access to that thread! What seems clear is: -Ubuntu did not think the DVD drive's region was set to [4]. It reported region [2]. Windows 7 had successfully played a region [4] disc on my laptop but the drive did not seem to 'remember' the region setting under Ubuntu. -Ubuntu was able to recognise the drive type (Matshita UJ892) using System -> Administration -> Disk Utility. -I got garbled (presumably incorrectly decrypted) video from Totem and VLC Media Player until I deleted the folder shown in this command: sudo rm -r ~/.dvdcss and restarted Ubuntu. This last step is crucial, allowing DVD decryption capabilities to be rebuilt. Overall I feel this was an unnecessarily complex procedure to get usable DVD video on Ubuntu, but it is working flawlessly now. -- DVD playback broken in Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
