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

Friday, January 23, 2015

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

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com
[LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 06:28:41PM -0500, J dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>> 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.
>
> By the way Gene, Jeff is probably the best person to help with Ubuntu on
> this forum. :)

I don't know that I'd go that far... like I said, these days I focus
mostly on cloud and server. Though I did spend the first three years
of my stint here doing a good bit of desktop QA and certification
work. But servers are just easier. So much nicer when you don't have
to worry about things like NetworkManager or PulseAudio or desktop UI
issues or which graphics card uses which driver... ugh...

And unlike SOME distros, we have a proper server distro with no GUI to
suck up resources.

> I've set up a couple of users with variations of Ubuntu, but I did the
> setting up so that they wouldn't have to.
>
>>
>> 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

that should have been DeCSS.c, it was printed on nice cardstock,
suitable for framing.

> There is a libdvdcss package I think. In Fedora, which I use more than
> Ubuntu, there's a repo that remains open soley for that rpm. In FreeBSD I
> think I just got it installed with mplayer, but I don't remember. Like
> Jeff, I don't use actual DVDs very often anymore, I tend to use media
> files.

Oh yeah, I'm sure there are .debs as well as RPMs, we just cant
provide the means to install it, you have to find it on your own.

>> Macs make everything nicer ;-) I own an MBA and love it. And I say
>> that as a 20+ year Linux veteran.
>
> I thought your degree would be in CS? Oh.....THAT kind of MBA, never mind.
> :)

My "degree" isn't even in CS... it's just "Computer Programming", I
just don't really do any programming beyond the test tool development
and such I do these days. I do a lot of hardware testing though, and
anymore, a lot of putting out of fires and paperwork.

I mentioned this on Linux@ last week, but I spent the first two weeks
of the year playing with automated OpenStack deployments for both
standard and High Availability modes. HA was pretty interesting to
play with, on a small cluster of 12 servers. Last time I really dug
into automated OpenStack deployments we had 75 nodes to work with on
some really cool hardware (look up the SeaMicro SM15000).

Now off to bed.

Cheers,
Jeff