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Mepis cant play DVD film from warner disc
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Post # 299350
 Mepis cant play DVD film from warner discHello again all, I guess I've said it all in the title.
I am finding that Mepis 11 is not able to play a DVD movie disk. I have tried various different players and no success. Sorry to say but the same disk plays using Mint LMDE on this machine. I like Mepis very much and want to use it for all I can What am I missing here? What have I got wrong? Is it a library or what? Please help! I have tried a search but found nothing. Anyone got any answers - Saist (hope I spelled it right) are you out there Regards to all Ralph |
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| Wed May 02, 2012 9:26 am |
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MEPIS Enthusiast  
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Post # 299352
Re: Mepis cant play DVD film from warner disc [Solved] Enable the debian-multimedia repo in Synaptic and install the libdvdcss2 package.
Might also install the w32codecs or w64codecs while you're at it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libdvdcss <q> Many GNU/Linux distributions do not contain libdvdcss (for example Debian, Fedora, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu) due to fears of running afoul of DMCA-style laws, however they may provide the tools to let the user install it themselves. For example, it is available in Ubuntu through Medibuntu. Distributions which come pre-installed with libdvdcss include BackTrack, CrunchBang Linux, LinuxMCE, Linux Mint, PCLinuxOS, Puppy Linux 4.2.1, Recovery Is Possible, Slax, Super OS, Pardus, and XBMC Live. </q> _________________ Asus M4A87TD USB3 AMD 870 Socket AM3 Athlon II X4 630 2.8GHz Quad Core GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCIe, nVidia TwinView Kingston 2G x 2 1333 DDR3 WD Caviar 500GB x 2 SATA hdd |
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| Wed May 02, 2012 9:37 am |
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Post # 299354
Re: Mepis cant play DVD film from warner disc
Hi "uncle mark" Thank you so much for such a quick and accurate reply I had the debian-multimedia repo enabled and codecs although 32 does not appear in my synaptic (64 bit system) But was lacking the libdvdcss2 package. Strangely I didn't find it with my search of codecs etc in synaptic yesterday. Such is life. Thanks again Ralph. |
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| Wed May 02, 2012 9:53 am |
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MEPIS Enthusiast
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Post # 299355
Re: Mepis cant play DVD film from warner disc
w32codecs won't show up if you're running 64 bit. Up until about 15 months ago I was running an old 32 bit system, and was used to adding w32codecs to anything I installed. When I built my new kit and went with a 64 bit install, I had a WTF?!?! moment when I searched for w32codecs and couldn't find it. That was followed by a DOH! moment when I ran across the w64codecs package in Synaptic. _________________ Asus M4A87TD USB3 AMD 870 Socket AM3 Athlon II X4 630 2.8GHz Quad Core GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCIe, nVidia TwinView Kingston 2G x 2 1333 DDR3 WD Caviar 500GB x 2 SATA hdd |
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| Wed May 02, 2012 10:18 am |
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Post # 310671
Re: Mepis cant play DVD film from warner disc
For those that might have found this as result of a search for codecs the above still applies but the repo name has now been shortened! You have to replace debian-multimedia with deb-multimedia or you get an error message  |
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