[Tfug] No dvd playback on Debian Testing (Squeeze)

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

On Mon, August 31, 2009 6:49 pm, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> Using Totem on a fresh install of Debian Testing (Squeeze) I am unable to
> play dvd's. Totem reports "Could not read from resource". And yes, the
> disc is mounted.
>
> I have installed libdvdcss2 from the debian-multimedia repository and I
> thought that was all I needed because that's all I had to do on Old-Stable
> (Etch). I have a laptop also running testing and it cannot play dvd's
> either, but I never bothered to figure it out because I don't play movies
> on it.
>
> Is anyone aware of other packages I need to install or configuration
> settings I need to change?
>
> Here are the packages I have installed related to DVD's:
>
> pippin:/home/glen# aptitude search dvd | grep ^i
> i A dvd+rw-tools    - DVD+-RW/R tools
> i   libdvdcss2      - Simple foundation for reading DVDs - runti
> i A libdvdnav4      - DVD navigation library
> i A libdvdread4     - library for reading DVDs
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> --
> Glen

I have a DVD reader that will read most DVDs but less than 1% of the time
it won't read one.  I had to have a friend copy a DVD so I could watch it
on my machine.  He could only read it on one of his 2 readers.  I also use
vlc.

Earl