Some poor guy trying to play DVD's with Ubuntu. What a joke

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Here is a summary of the posts this poor guy had to go through to TRY and
get his DVD working. Imagine having to type cryptic commands into a
terminal window. No wonder why Ubuntu is so Screwed up. Ubuntu will never
take over the desktop. Ubuntu is prehistoric.

Here is the summary of the posts:




I cannot get my DVD to play Cds or DVDs. A summary:

1. I have Hardy running as a virtual file on a XP host.
2. Cds and DVDs play OK in Windows although they do not autorun, I have to
start them using the player,
3. I had the same fault with Gutsy
4. I followed Reassuringlyoffensive's guides and everything seemed to load
without errors.
5. I tried gxine first. When I run the DVD I get a message "xine engine
fails to start" then "read error from /dev/dvd"
6. I get sound when I log on and I am able to play videos, with sound,from
Youtube.
7. I installed Hardy from a download, I was able to check for errors.

Can anyone help?

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Does the dvd any encryption/is it a commercial videodvd?
sudo apt-get install lsdvd libdvdread3 libdvdread
migth help.

If not you will require to setup the medibuntu repos
(http://www.medibuntu.org/)
follow the howto, how to add the repo and get some additional dvd reading
utilities
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 non-free-codecs

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Thanks soxs, but I have loaded this stuff all before. I did it again just
because it is a wet weekend and I have nothing else to do.

All I get when when I run VLC is a bit of hissing out the speakers.
Do these apps conflict with each other? I mean VLC and xine. Some on this
forum swear by VLC.

By the way I am trying to play a DVD when has been copied, so it should not
have any encryption on it.

I might try and put a bug report in through Launchpad.

--------------------------------

Try this:

Code:
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.shThat will give you DVD
playback. If that does not work, then from the sound of things, you may have
a problem with your CDROM drive.
---------------------------------

Thanks, but no that doesn't work.
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Does it get mounted? I mean the dvd? Does this happen with any video dvds or
just with some special ones?
Do you have another linux os on your PC? soyou can check if it works there
(do not install a second os just to test
---------------------------------
I think my DVD is mounted this is what I get when I enter lshw:

*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: FNF246V
vendor: CT6543D
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
logical name: /media/cdrom0
version: 2.0B
serial: NECVMWarVMware IDE CDR101.00
capabilities: removable audio dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5 mount.fstype=iso9660
mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime state=mounted status=ready
*-medium
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /media/cdrom0
configuration: mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime
state=mounted

The description seems wrong however as it is actually a DVDRAM/DVD
burner/CDR.

I don't understand all that "logical name stuff"

Any thoughts?
 
His problem is that he's running it in a virtual machine from the sounds of
it.

I sounds like he also doesn't have the virtual DVD drive setup properly.

Also yes I'm a Windows fan, but honestly that sounds like the issue to me.

Bill Yanaire said:
Here is a summary of the posts this poor guy had to go through to TRY and
get his DVD working. Imagine having to type cryptic commands into a
terminal window. No wonder why Ubuntu is so Screwed up. Ubuntu will
never take over the desktop. Ubuntu is prehistoric.

Here is the summary of the posts:




I cannot get my DVD to play Cds or DVDs. A summary:

1. I have Hardy running as a virtual file on a XP host.
2. Cds and DVDs play OK in Windows although they do not autorun, I have to
start them using the player,
3. I had the same fault with Gutsy
4. I followed Reassuringlyoffensive's guides and everything seemed to load
without errors.
5. I tried gxine first. When I run the DVD I get a message "xine engine
fails to start" then "read error from /dev/dvd"
6. I get sound when I log on and I am able to play videos, with sound,from
Youtube.
7. I installed Hardy from a download, I was able to check for errors.

Can anyone help?

------------------------------

Does the dvd any encryption/is it a commercial videodvd?
sudo apt-get install lsdvd libdvdread3 libdvdread
migth help.

If not you will require to setup the medibuntu repos
(http://www.medibuntu.org/)
follow the howto, how to add the repo and get some additional dvd reading
utilities
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 non-free-codecs

-------------------------------

Thanks soxs, but I have loaded this stuff all before. I did it again just
because it is a wet weekend and I have nothing else to do.

All I get when when I run VLC is a bit of hissing out the speakers.
Do these apps conflict with each other? I mean VLC and xine. Some on this
forum swear by VLC.

By the way I am trying to play a DVD when has been copied, so it should
not have any encryption on it.

I might try and put a bug report in through Launchpad.

--------------------------------

Try this:

Code:
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.shThat will give you DVD
playback. If that does not work, then from the sound of things, you may
have a problem with your CDROM drive.
---------------------------------

Thanks, but no that doesn't work.
---------------------------------
Does it get mounted? I mean the dvd? Does this happen with any video dvds
or just with some special ones?
Do you have another linux os on your PC? soyou can check if it works there
(do not install a second os just to test
---------------------------------
I think my DVD is mounted this is what I get when I enter lshw:

*-cdrom
description: DVD reader
product: FNF246V
vendor: CT6543D
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
logical name: /media/cdrom0
version: 2.0B
serial: NECVMWarVMware IDE CDR101.00
capabilities: removable audio dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5 mount.fstype=iso9660
mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime state=mounted status=ready
*-medium
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /media/cdrom0
configuration: mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime
state=mounted

The description seems wrong however as it is actually a DVDRAM/DVD
burner/CDR.

I don't understand all that "logical name stuff"

Any thoughts?
-----------------------------------
Code:
/dev/scd0 on /media/cdrom0 type iso9660
(ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8,user=john)Your cd ism ounted correctly. you my try
VLC and select [open medium] and select /dev/scd0 as source
Click to expand...
 
His problem is that he's running it in a virtual machine from the sounds
of it.

I sounds like he also doesn't have the virtual DVD drive setup properly.

Also yes I'm a Windows fan, but honestly that sounds like the issue to me.
Click to expand...

You are probably right. Writing a CD/DVD in any VM can be problematic,
especially if the host OS is busy.
 
Here is a summary of the posts this poor guy had to go through to TRY and
get his DVD working. Imagine having to type cryptic commands into a
terminal window. No wonder why Ubuntu is so Screwed up. Ubuntu will never
take over the desktop. Ubuntu is prehistoric.


I cannot get my DVD to play Cds or DVDs. A summary:

1. I have Hardy running as a virtual file on a XP host.
Click to expand...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Device problems with virtual machines
are nothing new nor are they limited to Linux. I'd say that this was
a bug with whatever Windows uses for virtualization but of course I know
Windows doesn't *have* any bugs...
 
Stephan Rose said:
Here is what I have to go through to play a DVD in Ubuntu:

1. Open the DVD Case
2. Remove DVD
3. Push button on DVD Drive
4. If another DVD is present, remove it
5. Insert DVD I'd like to watch
6. Push button to close DVD Drive
7. Watch DVD as movie player automatically comes up and plays the DVD.

I know, it's complicated and tough...
Click to expand...
I Think You Got It All Wrong. You Were On A Windows PC When You Did All 7
Steps. Just FYI
 
Stephan said:
Here is what I have to go through to play a DVD in Ubuntu:

1. Open the DVD Case
2. Remove DVD
3. Push button on DVD Drive
4. If another DVD is present, remove it
5. Insert DVD I'd like to watch
6. Push button to close DVD Drive
7. Watch DVD as movie player automatically comes up and plays the DVD.

I know, it's complicated and tough...
Click to expand...


I would have to agree with that, no problem here, but video files in
Vista is problematic. I have no problem with what is recorded using
Vista but have to use VLC player for a number of older recordings.
 
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