Comments on: Ubuntu: Enable DVD Playback

By: laz1904

laz1904 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:02:48 +0000

Thank you shamanstears for this post and Raven for posting the libdvdread4 change. That did the trick…I struggled for a couple days trying libdvdread3 reading older posts. I had all the Gstreamer plug-ins with the exception of fluendo checked off in Add/Remove programs prior to cutting and pasting the command line above with along with the correction…not sure if that helped but I am officially up and running in Ubuntu Juanty with an old Dell P4 1.8Ghz,…everything works..wireless drivers, printer and now dvd. I may never go back to MSFT. Thanks again.

By: k.c

k.c — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:29:25 +0000

thank you Raven, just a digit at the end of a string but it meant everything (3 to 4), running jaunty on acer aspire 5920 laptop

By: johnnyseeds

johnnyseeds — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:50:42 +0000

THIS DOESNT WORK! YOU CANNOT DOWNLOAD ANY PROGRAMS FOR LINUX OR INSTALL THEM.

By: sig

sig — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:02:52 +0000

No this method does not work either…only reason it works for you cause you have other lib files. but on fresh installs of ubuntu and kubuntu and linuxmint following this information will not read a dvd or detect a dvd in playback

By: sig

sig — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:01:26 +0000

as with all the other sites giving this information. it is now outdated and theses steps will not work on installing kubuntu 9.04 or later or linuxmint 7 or later as well.

By: John Hennessy

John Hennessy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:56:29 +0000

You might find that running the following is also needed:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

By: Raven

Raven — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:00:11 +0000

those commands dont work any more.
you need to change the libdvdread3 to libdvdread4 in both lines and it works great. DVD plays now with no problems.

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:32:21 +0000

how do you uninstall this
?????

By: Jeans

Jeans — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:53:04 +0000

Works great! But I had to remove the totem-gstreamer in the Synaptic Pakage Manager to get it working without conflict.

Thanks!

By: Harry Duplantis

Harry Duplantis — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:50:40 +0000

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