SO... DVDs.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

That doesn't sound right.

Try this:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

also maybe
sudo chmod 660 /dev/sr0; chgrp cdrom /dev/sr0


look at these web pages:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-play-a-dvd-in-ubuntu

[Little Brown Fox]

Selecting previously unselected package libdvdcss2.
(Reading database ... 495163 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../dvdcss-Uit7fM/libdvdcss.deb ...
Unpacking libdvdcss2 (1.2.13-0) ...
Setting up libdvdcss2 (1.2.13-0) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6) ...

I did all of those three up there (not that "maybe" thing you provided, not yet). This was what I got after that last one. Is this good?

Oh, and my computer wants to do a security update now, too...

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Sounds good. Security updates are a good idea. Should be able to play DVDs now.

[Little Brown Fox]

Okay, will try. I hope I didn't screw anything up on the discs themselves last night, though.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Not unless you badly scratched them.

[Little Brown Fox]

Oh pffft, like that's likely. I'm almost paranoid when it comes to handling discs.

... Still, it might not be a bad idea to check them over and make sure that the disc drive didn't hurt them in some way, just to be sure, before I try again. But I was concerned about coding or something; I am not very educated in these matters and thus like things to go as simply as possible, while worrying if something doesn't seem right (not that I'd even know).

[diehard67]

sorry forgot to mention

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

then it will work.

[Little Brown Fox]

Er, it already seems to be working. At least, VLC will comply. SMPlayer still does not seem to want to play my DVDs. Which is fine, I guess, only... I'm more used to SMPlayer. And, VLC's visual quality seems to be questionable, and I don't know how to fix it. :T

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Try xine or gxine.

[Little Brown Fox]

I don't know what any of those are; I've given up on it for now. I really wanted it to work on SMPlayer; it has high video quality and it's what I've grown used to. Besides, by all rights it should be able to handle DVDs...

Anyways, there was another program- actually two of them- that I wanted to see about. There's this thing called FreePiano, which keeps saying something about failure to initialize fonts or something, that I wanted to try to get to work; and then there's a Linux-compatible program, called Aria-something or something-Aria, or something like that, that I don't know how to install, because Linux has a tendency to be overly complicated like, 90% of the time. I'll need to download another thing to get it to work, but that should be easy enough- for Linux, it requires something called FluidSynth, I think. Something like that. :T

I'm sorry for being so non-specific; I really cannot remember these things, and preoccupied as I am, I simply cannot be bothered to just go and check. (Blame Homestuck.)