christer.homeip.net — DVD playback is not a feature that is installed by default due to license restrictions. In my opinion the restriction is stupid, very restrictive and violates my rights (of course I am not a lawyer so don’t listen to my rants.) This tutorial will show you how to install DVD playback capability on your Ubuntu linux machine.
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Closed AccountDec 15, 2006
VLC is your friend.
sanguinemoonDec 16, 2006
Yeah. WTF is with 10 Ubuntu tutorials a week?I've used Ubuntu and its not a bad distro, but now even the word Ubuntu is starting to piss me off. Ubuntu seems to be top heavy with n00bs that find it necessary to post and "digg" how-to's on the most trivial things. My last post on this topic got dugg down and I guess this one will be me, but I really give such a s**tI think I'll write a tutorial on how to breathe and use Ubuntu :p.
ordminuteDec 16, 2006
I support little HOWTO's like this being dugg but really, this is all well documented under the first few links seen in Firefox when you've just installed Ubuntu. ie:<a class="user" href="http://help.ubuntu.com">http://help.ubuntu.com</a>For the lazy, that just want to get going, download this and click two or three times to have a fully multimedia capable machine. Just like Windows, Ubuntu doesn't ship with DVD playback support:<a class="user" href="http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/">http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/</a>
zacmccormickDec 16, 2006
@greyfadeYou missed my point."None of this is the fault of Ubuntu."The user doesn't care whos fault it is, all they know is they can't hear sound coming from their speakers. And the user isn't going to say, "Ohh, it's all ok because it isn't Ubuntu's fault.."The whole point of what I was saying was that the user doesn't care, and more importantly, isn't willing to forgive, for any type of problem the software creator has with being able to put functionality into the system. Especially for something like mp3 support, which every user perceives as a basic feature irrespective of legal issues. None of this a problem as long as Ubuntu wants to stay in the kiddie pool, but I was under the impression that they were wanting to swim in the deep end. They can forget about swimming in the deep end until their operating system can play an mp3 file. (without seeing messages saying that pressing enter to install this is illegal)
dgh1973Dec 16, 2006
"When you bought the disc you bought it on the contingency that you would have to buy a player of sorts to play them. If you're upset you should have never bought the discs in the first place."I paid for my computer parts, including a DVD drive - therefor I paid for the player. You bought an OS that spies on you, that's your problem not mine. Stop trying to act like I'm a pirate or getting something for nothing just because I don't conform to your draconian ideals of how people should be using (or getting used by, rather) their computers. Besides, where's that precious DVD playback software in your windows system? Though so.Anyhow, thanks to the weak encryption methods that were broken by a 16 year old boy DVD playback is very easy to enable, I'm surprised there is even an article on this.It's called automatix people!
dgh1973Dec 16, 2006
More to the point on what I said above, windows does not give you DVD playback software, that comes with the DVD drive, therefor you buy the drive you paid for a player. You're talking nonsense if you think that is paid for at the OS level because it's not.
tritonxDec 17, 2006
Plz. if your ignorant about a subject, don't discuss it.
tritonxDec 17, 2006
While an almost interesting post. All your points are just impossible the way linux is. Point #1, What is so complicated with apt-get? there is an ADD/REMOVE right in the UI for the most popular application and Synaptic for a really detailed listing of packages available. Almost all distro I think nowaday uses something similar, so you keep your programs up to date without having to search for updates. And there are apps that you can download and do just like in OSX, move the folder to your apps dir and execute some script. Point #2. See all post about the legality of it.Point #3. What you say is just wrong... there cannot be only one because of the way it's built. Though interoperability between them is very easy, much more than say windows and OSX.
mabhatterDec 18, 2006
Wrong!! You paid for a license to view DVDs when you bought your DVD rom drive with that little "DVD" logo on it. Part of the price included the cost of the software license, that's why you get a PowerDVD or CyberDVD disc with each drive you buy. BUT.. somebody wanted to grab some extra control so they make the ability to play movies a separate software component from the hardware you already paid for... cause they want to "license" to you with extra restrictions. In reality DVDs play just fine on Vanilla Ubuntu. The ones my DVD recorder makes (without CSS) work perfectly!!! It's about 5 lines of code that the DVD cabal don't want you to have called de-CSS. As a side note, Billy doesn't include DVD playback At ALL (not even without CSS!) in Windows either because they're too cheap to actually pay per-copy for the license... funny eh! King of licensing doesn't like to PAY for licenses!! The trouble with Linux is that the "shiny disc" with the software you PAID for to run the DVD doesn't typically work on a Linux install.
ahildoerFeb 16, 2009
Just use this, it works every time for all versions of Ubuntu:Enabled DVD Playback in Ubuntu in ONE Command<a class="user" href="http://www.hildoersystems.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=62:enable-dvd-playback-in-ubuntu-in-one-command&amp;catid=39:multimedia&amp;Itemid=59">http://www.hildoersystems.com/index.php?option=com ...</a>
benowMay 20, 2009
irrationality favours the rational. That which is made public is.