Re: [orca-list] Playing dvds in Ubuntu mate

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

I am only just figureing this stuff out myself. The first thing I'd 
suggest is using mplayer at the command line until you're sure 
everything works. That way you can get error messages printed on the 
screen. I suspect your problem is with the digital rights management. To 
play a dvd, I had to install a css library. I had to google this just 
now but css stands for Content Scramble System.  On my debian system, I 
had to do this (as root):

# apt-get install libdvd-pkg
# dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg

I just finished writing a script to rip the audio on my set of Deep 
Space 9 dvds. You might be able to adapt it for your Dr. Who dvds. You 
can access the script here:
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/debian/ds9rip

It uses mplayer to rip the audio to aac format and then ffmpeg to 
convert the aac audio to mp3. So you would have to install mplayer and 
ffmpeg. I have another script that adds mp3 tags to the mp3 files, 
title, date, etc. Then I have a 3rd script that generates a podcast feed 
from the audio files. I have it podcasting Deep Space 9 episodes to me 
on the 25th anniversary of their original broadcast date. Pretty cool, huh?

Email me off list if you want more info about the podcast.




it to be usable by others.

On 9/27/18 11:45 PM, Michael Weaver via orca-list wrote:
> How do I play DVDs in Ubuntu Mate?
> The DVD is an original copy because it is a BBC classic Doctor Who, I 
> have VLC on my laptop and I am sure I specified all packages to be 
> installed when I was helped through the installation.
> I insert the DVD, I am read a message by Orca that a DVD has been 
> detected, I okay the screen which launches VLC Media Player, the DVD 
> sound like it is trying to read and no movie gets played.
> I hit space with the same result, I try to open the menus with ALT F10 I 
> think but I can't access the menus that way.
> I think at least in stock Ubuntu there was something you had to install 
> from the terminal, libdvd or something but I am not sure if this package 
> is needed in Ubuntu Mate and if it is, I can't remember the exact name 
> of it.
> Orca gives me no error message as to whether I am missing any packages 
> or video codecs.
>
>
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