[GRLUG] DVD playing in Ubuntu (quick how-to)

[Greg Folkert]

On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 00:23 -0400, Godwin wrote:
> Totally ripped from here:
> http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2765/ubuntu_enable_dvd_playback
> 
> sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3
> sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
> 
> Ah, I remember the days, many a moon a go, when getting DVD playback
> was one ugly hack...  ;-)

Or if on debian, you have debian-multimedia.org setup

apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3

maxime:/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3# dpkg -L libdvdread3
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libdvdread.so.3.2.1
/usr/lib/libdvdread.so.3

All done.

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