[PLUG] CD/DVD Drive and Movie Software: Xubuntu-9.04

m0gely m0gely at gmail.com
Fri Nov 27 00:09:32 UTC 2009


Rich Shepard wrote:
>     There's a cd/dvd drive in the Toshiba Satellite. Inserting a movie dvd is
> easy: press the button on the drawer and it opens. After that it gets rather
> screwy.
>
>     On the Applications->Multimedia menu is something called Movie Player.
> When that is invoked it opens a large window, then displays a message box
> that it's missing all requisite plug-ins (!). Strange. Doesn't tell me
> what's missing nor do I understand why they'd be missing in a clean
> installation.
>
>     Thinking I could get past this I used the synaptic package manager to get
> and install mplayer. However, when I try to play the disk in the drive I see
> messages that there's something about the disk, or too many buffers are
> loaded, and the mplayer window shows a psycadelic display of colored bars in
> several vertical strips from the bottom of the window up. So I kill that
> process and try to remove the disk by opening the drive door.
>
>     At this point a serious message box pops up with text that the drive is
> not recogzined by HAL and must have been installed by aliens or something.
> Never have seen any such reaction before. Need to resort to the straightened
> paper clip to open the drive and remove the disk.
>
>     Does anyone have any ideas why both the software and the hardware are
> acting as they are?

Does the DVD have some advanced copy protection that could be 
interfering? Does it play on another computer? I use VLC for anything 
video related. I know people that swear by mplayer and that's fine, but 
it seems to take some extra tinkering that VLC doesn't.

-- 
m0gely



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