DVD Player

cadman420

Member

​

Joined

Feb 28, 2008

Location

Michigan

• Sep 10, 2009

• #1

I am having trouble getting my DVD player to run with Debian. I have the software installed I think.

 

Trombe

Member

​

Joined

Mar 13, 2005

Location

Austin, Texas

• Sep 10, 2009

• #2

Is the software you have installed VLC?

 

OP

cadman420

Member

​

Joined

Feb 28, 2008

Location

Michigan

• Sep 11, 2009

• Thread Starter
• #3

Trombe said:

Is the software you have installed VLC?

Click to expand...

I have totum movie player and xine installed on debian. I used the synaptic package manager to install it via debian repository. I had slackware for a short time (x config didn't agree with my comptuer) and xine played DVD's on that. So I am wondering if there is something blocking it from playing on debian and how I could fix it.

 

curtis1552

Member

​

Joined

Aug 26, 2007

Location

Dayton, Ohio

• Sep 11, 2009

• #4

You need to install decss (libdvdcss2) to decode DVDs. It may be in a non-standard repo.
Since I use Ubuntu and not Debian i'm not sure what repo you need to look in.

 

OP

cadman420

Member

​

Joined

Feb 28, 2008

Location

Michigan

• Sep 11, 2009

• Thread Starter
• #5

Ubuntu is based on Debian and it looks almost exactly the same. Also most of Ubuntu's files come from the Debian repository if I am not mistaken.

 

Trombe

Member

​

Joined

Mar 13, 2005

Location

Austin, Texas

• Sep 11, 2009

• #6

You aren't going to get dvd playback out of the Debian or Ubuntu repositories - it would be illegal if you could. The easiest solution is to just install VLC, but if you want to go with your solution maybe have a look at: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/DVD-Playback-HOWTO/

 

OP

cadman420

Member

​

Joined

Feb 28, 2008

Location

Michigan

• Sep 11, 2009

• Thread Starter
• #7

na, the VLC looks like it will handle my small load of media. Thanks.

 

ihrsetrdr

Señor Senior Member

​

Joined

May 17, 2005

Location

High Desert, Calif.

• Sep 11, 2009

• #8

Take some quality time over on the debian forums and browse the "How-to" section. Below is a link on ripping DVDs, so I'm sure somewhere there should be some information on DVD play.

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=41204

 

P

pharoer

Member

​

Joined

Dec 4, 2008

• Sep 11, 2009

• #9

The "official" Debian repository for DeCSS and other software is at http://debian-multimedia.org/

 

curtis1552

Member

​

Joined

Aug 26, 2007

Location

Dayton, Ohio

• Sep 12, 2009

• #10

Trombe said:

You aren't going to get dvd playback out of the Debian or Ubuntu repositories - it would be illegal if you could. The easiest solution is to just install VLC, but if you want to go with your solution maybe have a look at: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/DVD-Playback-HOWTO/

Click to expand...

This is why most linux (and most windows) don't play DVDs out of the box. I think M$ worked somehting out so that newer versions can, but my older XP install wouldn't play them until i installed 3rd party software. The appeal of linux is that you need only add their 3rd party repo and then you don't have to deal with the ad-ware that comes with some divx codecs or decription software.

 

OP

cadman420

Member

​

Joined

Feb 28, 2008

Location

Michigan

• Sep 12, 2009

• Thread Starter
• #11

Na, I ran Vista Ultimate on here for some time before moving over to Linux and it didn't play DVD's either. Still have to have the Nero addon to play them.

 

OP

cadman420

Member

​

Joined

Feb 28, 2008

Location

Michigan

• Sep 13, 2009

• Thread Starter
• #12

VLC is working just fine now, thanks for all the help