Multimedia and DVDs in Ubuntu
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- Check out this page for additional information on Ubuntu and restricted media formats.
So, you've bought a DVD-ROM from the Thrift Store, and you want to play DVDs on your FreekBox. You'll need to install a few programs in order to make it work.
- Physically install the drive, paying attention to whether the drive should be master or slave. If you replace the CD drive, the DVD drive must be set to master or cable-select.
- On a Free Geek box with Ubuntu Dapper as the OS, you can run the "Automatix" script (Applications>System Tools>Automatix). You need to be online at the time.
- Install Totem-xine and Multimedia Codecs.
- In order to play commercial encrypted DVDs, you will need to also install the AUD-DVD package which contains the libdvdcss library. There are potential legal issues with this which is why Free Geek does not install this package on their boxes. See wikipedia:libdvdcss.
People without Automatix installed on their box can do the following:
- uncomment the universe deb lines in sources.list
- apt-get update
- apt-get install totem-xine
- run /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh