[Tfug] ubuntu dvd player trouble

[Charles R. Kiss]

Charles

> I use either mplayer or vlc.  I have never liked Totem.  I am not sure
> but you may have to reinstall your libdvdcss when you do a distribution
> upgrade.

I have to agree with this.  Mplayer and VLC are both awesome, sometimes  
one works better than the other (for DVDs for example, and I had use ogle  
for a time) -I imagine this depends on depends (hardware/software); I also  
use dvd::rip: ie. aptitude install dvdrip... (really difficult, right??)    
which I think is great, I mean really great.

I think there was a time when I had to compile my own ffmpeg from source  
(another great program) and it messed up my mplayer so I begrudgingly used  
Totem for a while, until something happened somewhere and it started  
working again.

Now I can turn cell phone videos into .avi or .mpeg files or flash using  
ffmpeg.  Or rip a DVD into an .avi or .mpeg on the fly using dvdrip, even  
use frame counts (use a little math, time over frames, etc.), including  
flipping things sideways... etc.

Oh yeah, I think I tried to get Cinelerra to work, and it fixed the  
ffmpeg/mplayer conflicts (I downloaded a bunch of stuff!!).... but I  
really couldn't get Cinelerra to work completely; not that I can't or  
anything (just don't want to right now).  Acutally, I think it had  
something to do with the libquicktime package that messed up Cinelerra  
that upon removal, my mplayer started working again, as did ffmpeg.

If Linux video software takes to task as linux graphics software has, I  
imagine it will be quite as excellent as The Gimp, another absolutely  
GREAT piece of software...!

Anyway, I've changed kernels a few times and they all still work great.

As does OpenOffice, etc...

All this was on a Debian Lenny 64bit kernel however. BTW, I know that some  
of the difficulty I experienced in one instance was a memory problem on a  
32bit ubuntu laptop.  Good Luck!

Welcome to Linux!!!

Charles
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