Any Linux users here?

wolfman544 · Feb 5, 2008

Qyöt27;43349716 said:
For that, you need a player that was built with support for libdvdcss - I thought that mplayer and VLC had this enabled, but maybe that's only if you get custom builds of them (or compile them yourself). libdvdcss handles the decryption routine that is required for commercial playback.

To read more about the issue of its presence in Linux, see this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libdvdcss

i've tried mplayer, vlc, totem, I have the libdvdcss installed. Basically tried every player listed in Ubuntu's synaptic package manager. It does seem to be an encryption issue, since the ones that I burn wok just fine.

Faith_Warrior said:
I have a generic drive that Linux will read, but I don't know the make/model off hand. You might want to check with the particular distro you are using and find their list of Linux friendly hardware and base your decision off of that. Linux.org used to maintain a list, but I'm not sure if that is regularly updated all the time, I haven't looked at their list in some time.

I'm running 2 comps, 1 with Ubuntu and one with Xubuntu both 7.10, the drives themselves seem to be working fine. Just seems to be the encryption issue.

pgp_protector · Feb 6, 2008

hmm maybe it will work, now it's booting

pgp_protector · Feb 6, 2008

Time to start tweeking.
Got Ubuntu 7.1 on my system now (Dual boot)
Got it running with a 8600GT Gfx card after a few kicks

Now to go find some eye candy

wolfman544 · Feb 7, 2008

pgp_protector said:
Time to start tweeking.
Got Ubuntu 7.1 on my system now (Dual boot)
Got it running with a 8600GT Gfx card after a few kicks

Now to go find some eye candy

yay eye candy

Qyöt27 · Feb 7, 2008

wolfman544 said:
i've tried mplayer, vlc, totem, I have the libdvdcss installed. Basically tried every player listed in Ubuntu's synaptic package manager. It does seem to be an encryption issue, since the ones that I burn wok just fine.

The builds of VLC and mplayer in the repositories in these cases may not have had the proper flags set at compilation time to use libdvdcss, hence why they don't work. Or it could be an even more intensive case where libdvdcss might have to be statically-compiled into VLC or mplayer for them to work with it.

In other words, you might have to compile said programs yourself, or find a third-party repository that hosts custom builds like that.

For what it's worth, I remember getting a commercial DVD to work under Ubuntu 6.06, I think it was (meaning, at the time - for all I know it might have even been 5.10), but my computer just wasn't up to the task of making it play back right, nor do I remember which player I used. DirectX acceleration - or rather, lack of - came back to bite me hard. Heck, I couldn't even get XviD files to work at full speed under mplayer, even though the Windows version of mplayer could handle it and then some.

wolfman544 · Feb 7, 2008

Qyöt27;43444801 said:
The builds of VLC and mplayer in the repositories in these cases may not have had the proper flags set at compilation time to use libdvdcss, hence why they don't work. Or it could be an even more intensive case where libdvdcss might have to be statically-compiled into VLC or mplayer for them to work with it.

In other words, you might have to compile said programs yourself, or find a third-party repository that hosts custom builds like that.

For what it's worth, I remember getting a commercial DVD to work under Ubuntu 6.06, I think it was (meaning, at the time - for all I know it might have even been 5.10), but my computer just wasn't up to the task of making it play back right, nor do I remember which player I used. DirectX acceleration - or rather, lack of - came back to bite me hard. Heck, I couldn't even get XviD files to work at full speed under mplayer, even though the Windows version of mplayer could handle it and then some.

Joy, I'm still a relative linux noob.
I'm mainly a winders based tech hehe.
Sadly, it's an older comp, so ubuntu runs like XP, Xubuntu runs great though.

Qyöt27 · Feb 7, 2008

If it's any consolation, you might be able to jimmy a Wine-based solution into working - but you'll need Media Player Classic and maybe even a specific Windows-based decryption support dll (possibly just a Windows build of libdvdcss, maybe not - maybe MPC has it built-in for all I know).

One thing on the VideoLan Wiki:

Code:
I cannot read DVDs!

Here are a few things to check:

* If you are on Linux, did you install the libdvdcss package?
* Do you have write access to your DVD device? For instance, under Unix:

Code:

# chmod 666 /dev/dvd

where /dev/dvd is the device corresponding to your DVD drive.

wolfman544 · Feb 7, 2008

Qyöt27;43445490 said:
If it's any consolation, you might be able to jimmy a Wine-based solution into working - but you'll need Media Player Classic and maybe even a specific Windows-based decryption support dll (possibly just a Windows build of libdvdcss, maybe not - maybe MPC has it built-in for all I know).

One thing on the VideoLan Wiki:

maybe

WhirlwindMonk · Feb 12, 2008

I'm a linux n00b. Basically, a program my college is beta-testing crashed my desktop, so I used that as an excuse to go out, grab an external drive, and install linux on it. Right now I'm in the process of backing up important stuff before I reinstall windows. I'll be dual-booting off the external.

I'm using openSuse 10.3, which I'm liking. I have no complaints other than ones that will probably go away with experience as I learn the little tricks and stuff that come with linux/openSuse.

Sketcher · Feb 12, 2008

I just installed Ubuntu 7.10 a few days ago, still getting used to it.

wolfman544 · Feb 14, 2008

Qyöt27;43445490 said:
If it's any consolation, you might be able to jimmy a Wine-based solution into working - but you'll need Media Player Classic and maybe even a specific Windows-based decryption support dll (possibly just a Windows build of libdvdcss, maybe not - maybe MPC has it built-in for all I know).

One thing on the VideoLan Wiki:

I got to to work,

WhirlwindMonk said:
I'm a linux n00b. Basically, a program my college is beta-testing crashed my desktop, so I used that as an excuse to go out, grab an external drive, and install linux on it. Right now I'm in the process of backing up important stuff before I reinstall windows. I'll be dual-booting off the external.

I'm using openSuse 10.3, which I'm liking. I have no complaints other than ones that will probably go away with experience as I learn the little tricks and stuff that come with linux/openSuse.

great quotes in your sig

Gentileone · Feb 19, 2008

Hello everyone,

Ive just installed Ubuntu 7:10 for the first time using LINUX ever.

I have come up with a problem tho and wondered if you guys could help.

After i install from the cdrom it asks to take out the cd to re-boot, all good, but when it comes the screen which runs test and say ok for each.
It asks for the username and password.
I enter them in and i get wrong password .
Therefore i re install and also have change the password in safe mode
Ive limited the password to a letter "m" and still no joy.

I have no idea why i cant install Ubuntu. Any Ideas or can i get pass this security system.

Many thanks
Gentileone

wiggsfly · Feb 19, 2008

Gentileone said:
Hello everyone,

Ive just installed Ubuntu 7:10 for the first time using LINUX ever.

I have come up with a problem tho and wondered if you guys could help.

After i install from the cdrom it asks to take out the cd to re-boot, all good, but when it comes the screen which runs test and say ok for each.
It asks for the username and password.
I enter them in and i get wrong password .
Therefore i re install and also have change the password in safe mode
Ive limited the password to a letter "m" and still no joy.

I have no idea why i cant install Ubuntu. Any Ideas or can i get pass this security system.

Many thanks
Gentileone

Hmm, that is an interesting problem. Are you certain you are using the correct username?

wolfman544 · Feb 19, 2008

Gentileone said:
Hello everyone,

Ive just installed Ubuntu 7:10 for the first time using LINUX ever.

I have come up with a problem tho and wondered if you guys could help.

After i install from the cdrom it asks to take out the cd to re-boot, all good, but when it comes the screen which runs test and say ok for each.
It asks for the username and password.
I enter them in and i get wrong password .
Therefore i re install and also have change the password in safe mode
Ive limited the password to a letter "m" and still no joy.

I have no idea why i cant install Ubuntu. Any Ideas or can i get pass this security system.

Many thanks
Gentileone

that is odd

wiggsfly said:
Hmm, that is an interesting problem. Are you certain you are using the correct username?

only thing i can think of too

kjb34 · Feb 19, 2008

Gentileone said:
Hello everyone,

Ive just installed Ubuntu 7:10 for the first time using LINUX ever.

I have come up with a problem tho and wondered if you guys could help.

After i install from the cdrom it asks to take out the cd to re-boot, all good, but when it comes the screen which runs test and say ok for each.
It asks for the username and password.
I enter them in and i get wrong password .
Therefore i re install and also have change the password in safe mode
Ive limited the password to a letter "m" and still no joy.

I have no idea why i cant install Ubuntu. Any Ideas or can i get pass this security system.

Many thanks
Gentileone

Try the alternate install CD.

Gentileone · Feb 19, 2008

Thanks everyone

the problem lied with "startx", so I installed that ( which somehow I didnt install properly ).

Another Question , what i would really like to do is to build a web page so that users can download files, mp3 and live streaming of sermons.

I understand that xubuntu would be much better and easier to use instead of ubuntu server. I have been told that I would find it very hard being very new to linux.

What do you guys recommend so I can achieve the above outcome the most user friendly way.

Thanks once again for your time and effort

wolfman544 · Feb 20, 2008

Gentileone said:
Thanks everyone

the problem lied with "startx", so I installed that ( which somehow I didnt install properly ).

Another Question , what i would really like to do is to build a web page so that users can download files, mp3 and live streaming of sermons.

I understand that xubuntu would be much better and easier to use instead of ubuntu server. I have been told that I would find it very hard being very new to linux.

What do you guys recommend so I can achieve the above outcome the most user friendly way.

Thanks once again for your time and effort

If anything Xubuntu is much less resource hungry, so your system will run faster with it instead of Ubuntu, esp if it's an older system.
I tried Ubuntu on my wife's laptop, (it's older with a 1 ghz processor and a whole 221 meg or ram) and it didn't run much better than XP, but Xubuntu runs beautifully on it and has made it so we can still use it and not have to replace it.

kjb34 · Feb 21, 2008

I agree with Wolfman it depends on your system. Ubuntu will run better on a newer system while Xubuntu while run better on older systems. If you want to leran more about using Linux go to linux.org or ubuntuforums.org.

Gentileone · Feb 22, 2008

Thanks heaps guys,

I have managed tio install Ubuntu but first erase my HDD, then manage to thru fail safe to install.

So all down hill from here to learn as much as i can

God Bless
Gentileone

wolfman544 · Feb 26, 2008

Gentileone said:
Thanks heaps guys,

I have managed tio install Ubuntu but first erase my HDD, then manage to thru fail safe to install.

So all down hill from here to learn as much as i can

God Bless
Gentileone

Glad it's working for ya

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