linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] How to Play a DVD in Ubuntu

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Gene Henley mhenley2@verizon.net
[LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> I applaud your honesty. I also defer to your experience. My take on Ubuntu and other distros is
> should one want to get all the apps to be productive for ones wants in using Ubuntu,then the
> terminal usage is not just nice to have,but NECESSARY. I wonder. How many,including yours truly,
> are wound through the wonderful world of installing apps before they have the grass roots knowledge
> to go systematically through the preliminaries of what a real NEWBIE is?

Not at all... you can do most things via GUI, I'll just put on my smug
superiority face and say "Real users use the terminal, harumph" :)
Scott will appreciate the humor in that.

But seriously, in Ubuntu 14.04 you can open System Preferences /
Software and Updates and ensure that "Software restricted by copyright
or legal issues (multiverse)" under the Ubuntu Software tab is checked
and perhaps "Canonical Partners and "Independent" are checked on the
"Other Software" tab to enable the multiverse and partner repos.

Then launch the Software Center and search for "DVD player" though
that only seems to really show Fluendo for $24.95. That is how we
cover the licensing for dvd-css (Fluendo licenses it).

Last time I set up a DVD player on Linux, I had to find the source
code for libdvdcss and manually hack/compile it, install it and then
get the players to work. Somewhere I still have the hard-copy of the
dvdcs

> For example, I am a misguided Microshaft person. I also am fairly good at using my Macs,and
> training in Macs is pretty good,IMHO. So is the training in Linux groups, but not starting from grade one
> that Newbies may require. Example.

Macs make everything nicer ;-) I own an MBA and love it. And I say
that as a 20+ year Linux veteran.

> You have interest in movies. No quibble from me. I just don`t waste my time on them. I`m in business.
> So,the least amount of wheel spinning I can do to download and use necessary apps,the better. Should
> that require the usage of terminal,then so be it. But, first things first. Is terminal proficiency a priority?
> I defer to you. If so, I will stop mucking about aimlessly,and start the learning process.

So not sure about other distros and what they offer, but for Ubuntu,
officially, Fluendo is it. We have a partnership with them so we can
include a legal DVD player in Ubuntu because we can't legally support
people using unlicensed DVD decryption :( But there are plenty of
places via the Goog that can give you step by step on making that
happen.

FWIW, even ubuntu-restricted-extras does not install libdvdcss:

bladernr@critical-maas:~$ apt-cache show ubuntu-restricted-extras
Package: ubuntu-restricted-extras
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/metapackages
Installed-Size: 30
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 60
Depends: ubuntu-restricted-addons
Recommends: ttf-mscorefonts-installer, unrar,
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse, libavcodec-extra-53
Filename: pool/multiverse/u/ubuntu-restricted-extras/ubuntu-restricted-extras_60_amd64.deb
Size: 2902
MD5sum: 6a2d841e7703f86fdc983a0f0b597200
SHA1: 19759185a90ad07adf01ea9ff0d0be10ed3187e6
SHA256: 5473c49816c8533587df5269edec25e68d8dfdc67deb2c297003d86c516a309c
Description-en: Commonly used restricted packages for Ubuntu
This package depends on some commonly used packages in the Ubuntu
multiverse repository.
.
Installing this package will pull in support for MP3 playback and decoding,
support for various other audio formats (GStreamer plugins), Microsoft fonts,
Flash plugin, LAME (to create compressed audio files), and DVD playback.
.
Please note that this does not install libdvdcss2, and will not let you play
encrypted DVDs. For more information, see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
.
Please also note that packages from multiverse are restricted by copyright
or legal issues in some countries. See
http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing
for more information.

> Cheers
> Gene Henley
> Long Island
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> To be honest though, my knowledge there is a bit dated as I don't
> really focus too much on desktop anymore, I do strictly cloud and
> enterprise these days, and personally, I haven't watched a DVD on a
> computer in YEARS. I prefer to watch my movies on my nice 55" HDTV
> using a proper dedicated device, but that's just my choice. I do
> sometimes watch them on a tablet when I travel, or on my MacBook Air,
> but even then I watch digital copies, not optical media copies.
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> Heck, I dont even own a computer DVD drive anymore... except for one
> USB drive I use maybe once a year when I need to create a data CD for
> test work.
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> Cheers,
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> Jeff
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> > Scott Robbins
> > PGP keyID EB3467D6
> > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
> > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
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