Cannot play DVDs

[powwowtime]

Ultimate Edition 1.9 for AMD64/x86_64 .... This is on my desktop system (specs in sig line below). Cannot play the movie and Nautilus cannot view DVD's contents, just pops up showing that a DVD containing 0 files is in the drive. I made sure w64codecs, libdvdcss2, libdvdread3 and libdvdnav4 (latest versions from Medibuntu repositories) are installed. I have installed, removed and reinstalled, and tried out Movie Player with Gstreamer and Xine engines, Kaffiene, Codeine, Gxine and Mplayer "ultimate movie player" all to no avail. I tried playing the DVD (and other DVD movies) in either drive and I tried it in the internal drive while the USB DVDR-RW/CDR-RW was unplugged. Same results -- Nautilus pops up showing that a DVD containing 0 files is in the drive, and none of the players can read it. (The system can boot with a Live CD/DVD in either drive, and read contents of data CD's, music CD's and data DVD's in either drive while a live session is running from the other drive or during a session run from the hard drive install.) The movies can play under WinXP, and if I boot using the UE1.9 Live DVD in one DVD drive, I can then play the commercial/encrypted DVD movies just fine in the other. I suspect there are options that are default during a live session that do not install by default on a fresh install-to-hard-drive, other than the libraries/codecs mentioned above, perhaps ....

Any ideas what else I may be overlooking?

[pch.shot]

Have you tried this yet? Install Totem xine and remove Totem gstreamer.

[witblits1970]

or have you tried using vlc, gnomeplayer? i had a similar issue and using vlc cured all my ailments. i agree with some other posts that you have tio install the restricted drivers as it does do a lot for watching dvds etc.

[powwowtime]

Thanks for all your responses! I forgot the restricted drivers. All works fine now, with some minor glitches. Xine plays smoothly but Kaffeine using Xine as its engine plays jittery, and I can't find a way to "undo" Kaffeine as my default player. Perhaps there is an adjustment within Kaffeine that optimizes the way it uses Xine?

[pch.shot]

Good to see someone using the celeron d 3.2. Best processor for the money ever built!!

[powwowtime]

No complaints about the Celeron 3.2, it came with the case.


Hey, I installed VLC media player. Wow, what a difference, and it's not "choppy" or "jittery" like Kaffeine and Gxine were (*on my system with available drivers). And I got to experiment with a whole menu of deinterlacing mechanisms and other tweaks -- now that's control and I like it. The only thing still buggin' me just a little is, when I stick in a DVD it pops up File Manager (in Gnome) rather than presenting a list of handler candidates (like in KDE). I might try tweaking my file manager or even try out a few others (not a deal breaker by any means but I do really prefer Gnome)...

[pch.shot]

Try this:
As you can see I use Totem but you can put VLC here as well!

[DaddyX3]

LOL, I didn't even know that! ha! I was kinda stumped I know how to associate file types within nautilus to run VLC, but didn't know how to figure out the DVD one, THANK YOU!