On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 02:47:00PM +0100, julian wrote: > Hi folks > > I have installed both ubuntu(with gnome) and kubuntu recently and > neither of them seem to play DVD "out of the box". Is there a specific > reason for that(copyright laws or something?)? >
This [0] page explains some of that. > It strikes me as a issue that should be addressed to start to pull > people away from Windoze. lots of windoze user will not use linux if it > can't play DVD without hassle. > Depends what your definition of "hassle" is to be fair. > My installation was on sony vaio laptop which played all DVD with > Windoze no problem (windvd, powerdvd). > Software you've paid for that has in turn paid a licence to be able to distribute said software that can decrypt/play certain patent-encumbered formats I'm afriad. The page quoted above explains how to enable DVD playback on Ubuntu. Cheers, Al. [0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats -- ubuntu-uk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
