Questions about DVD media, including playback, mounting, players, burning and editing. Questions may pertain to both video and data DVDs.
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Why can't I read encrypted DVDs after installing libdvdread4?
I have already installed libdvdread4 and I still get the message:
Could not read DVD. This may be because the DVD is encrypted and a DVD decryption library is not installed.
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Installing 12.10 via DVD, Don't get install along side Windows 7 option?
Don't want to install via the Windows installer. Have burned the ISO and booted from CD. When I select the option to install, I'm not getting the option to "Install along side Windows 7" which the ...
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Why does my optical drive not play commercial dvds?
I'm very new to Ubuntu having just replaced a faulty Windows 7 on my Sony Viao. I now find that my DVD drive will not play commercial movie DVDs. I have loaded the recommended files. I can use ...
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Two problems with Ubuntu 12.04.1 [closed]
First issue that I'm having is the speakers constantly make a popping sound if I'm playing some form of media but I don't have my speakers hooked up to my laptop. I thought it might have been the ...
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DVD stuff fails, slowly
I have 12.10 installed on a couple different machines and ALL of them have serious issues when working with DVD's
When I try to rip video the video has all kinds of little blits
When I try to burn a ...
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Trouble with booting from DVD on a Mac
So I just downloaded the latest edition of Ubuntu 32 bit onto a blank DVD. I went through the whole disk terminal and set it up the way the website showed. However when I inserted the disk it said it ...
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Speed of CD/DVD unit in ubuntu 12.04
I have intalled Ubuntu 12.04 on my Acer laptop and the problem with the unit of CD/DVD is that it do not reduce the speed of reproduction. In other vertions of Ubuntu this probles was solved with ...
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Blocking non-admin user from using DVD drive
How can I stop a non-admin user from using the DVD drive (specifically burning DVDs if possible, but all access denied is fine too). I've tried removing them from cdrom group but this did not seem to ...
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Unable to rip DVD using HandBrake or OGMRip
I just got my kids some new DVDs, but I am trying to rip them and back them up, since I know they are rough with their discs, and I want to have backups in case the discs become scratched.
However, I ...
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DVD pausing - Buffer I/O error
This is not the first time that it happens. When I'm watching a DVD on Ubuntu, after sometime, it starts pausing. The CPU goes 100% (wa). I get these messages on syslog:
sr 0:0:1:0: [sr0] Result: ...
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1answer
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Computer seems to be frozen during reboot after installation. How long should the reboot take?
I'm attempting to dual-boot my laptop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10. Everything to my knowledge has gone perfectly, up until now. The installation was success. Consequently, the computer began the ...
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How to burn a region free DVD from a DVD movie locked to a specific region?
A friend of mine have a DVD movie locked to a different region. Hopefully, I seem to have a region free DVD player in my laptop.
How can I burn a region free copy of his DVD movie so my friend can ...
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How to convert DVD to WMV (or another format acceptable by Windows Movie Maker)?
I need to convert DVD to WMV file or another format acceptable by Windows Movie Maker (video is going to be edited on windows machine). What software should I use?
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I installed DVDRip, and now
My videos folder is locked down (root), and will not allow repermission with sudo, and my dvdrw no longer mounts, it was working fine before install. I'm running 12.04. Have been running through the ...
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Brasero/K3b say: “no disc present”. How to burn on my blank DVD?
I have a Gateway E-4100 desktop computer with Ubuntu 12.04 installed. I'm trying to burn files to a blank DVD using the internal DVD/CD burner (of which I'm sure is the original that came with the ...
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External DVD writer not detected in xfburn
I have an external dvd writer (brand: Buffalo) and it is not detected in xfburn.
How do I solve this ?
$ udevadm info --name=/dev/sr1 --query=all
P: ...
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no DVD since upgrade to kernel 3.7
My problem is the following, since an upgrade to Kernel 3.7, my cdrom/DVD drive has dissapeared.
There is no trace of /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom0 and others.
The drive does not show up in dmesg.
I see many ...
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unable to mount blank-dvdr disk
I have inserted a blank disk into my dvd-rw but in ubuntu its showing an error that unable to mount the place is already mounted?
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Unable to see DVD drive on Ubuntu 12.10
I know that the drive is connected properly since I have Ubuntu installed along side Windows 7 and the drive works within Windows. I do not see it in the media folder as specified in other answers. ...
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ubuntu 12.04 will not play DVDs
First off, I'm not just a newbie, I'm clueless! So your answers will need to be in complete idiot language (let's say I'm computer saavy, and I can follow directions,but I've never programmed anything ...
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Determine CD/DVD burn date
How can I determine the date when a CD/DVD was written?
I have already tried Disc info in Nero4Linux and cdrecord -v dev=xxx -toc, but unfortunately none of them gave me the answer.
I know there ...
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CDs and DVDs won't play or burn in Ubuntu 12.10
I am trying to burn an Iso image to DVD but when I put the disc in the tray and close it, Ubuntu won't recognise it. The same thing happens when I try to play music on a CD. There is a whirring noise, ...
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How do I set it such that DVDs and CDs autorun?
As per title, I'd like to know how in 12.10 you set it such that DVDs and CDs autorun.
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How to eject a CD/DVD from the command line
I've just right clicked on the DVD icon in the Unity Launcher in order to eject it, but instead of hitting the 'Eject' button, I missed and hit the 'Unlock from Launchpad' option instead.
How do I go ...
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Can't mount data DVD using 12.04
I cannot mount a data DVD using Ubuntu 12.04.
I can read the DVD using a different OS, so the DVD is not the problem.
I can read other CDs using Ubuntu.
The error I get is:
$ sudo mount /dev/dvd ...
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Is there a command to query DVD titles? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
By what methods can I check information about a DVD video disc?
I am wondering if there's an Ubuntu command I can use to query the titles (ie numbers and names) on a ...
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cannot play netflix dvd on kubuntu
I am unable to play netflix DVDs for some reason. Here is the output of vlc -v
VLC media player 2.0.3 Twoflower (revision 2.0.2-93-g77aa89e)
[0x908108] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default ...
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By what methods can I check information about a DVD video disc?
I have some DVD video discs that I am intending to sell. I would like to get information such as region, language, subtitles.
Some of the discs are in another language which I cannot read, and some ...
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How do I create a movie DVD to be played on a TV [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I create a movie DVD?
I have all these DVD rips on my computer, and I want to put them on a DVD to play on my TV, as my laptop doesn't have a HDMI port. What is ...
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Is there a way to unlock dvd region settings?
I've had some trouble getting 12.04 to read encrypted DVD's. One of the things I did, was to set the region to 2 (Europe) with sudo regionset.
However, I have some DVD's from region 1 (USA) that I ...
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Why doesn't my Ubuntu 12.10 OS recognise the presence of my DVD?
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 i386 on a Vostro 3500 laptop and I placed in a DVD, it registered its presence. Then I unmounted it (I thought it would just eject it) and since then whenever I placed a new ...
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Brasero yields “SCSI error on write(1248864, 16)”
I was using Brasero to burn a Win7 .iso for a friend (sorry, couldn't convince him to try Linux e.e) and when it was at 80% the process stopped with a "SCSI error on write(1248864, 16)".
I burnt some ...
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How do I get media players to play ripped dvd files using Handbrake?
I want to rip my dvd collection to put on a server for my tv. I started this with trying 4 dvds using Handbrake. The first 3 ripped perfectly fine according to the directions I used from LifeHacker ...
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libdvdread: Can't seek to block
I am trying to read a DVD.
libdvdcss is installed.
VLC plays the DVD fine for about 20 minutes before stopping suddenly. Totem, AcidRip, DVD::RIP all fail. I think that lsdvd sums up the problem:
$ ...
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DVD won't autoplay
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10
I accidentally unlocked the dvd icon from the launcher, and now I can't get the icon back. Also, dvds won't auto-play any more.
Yes, I tried googling for solutions, but ...
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Cannot burn iso image to DVD using any burner
I tried to burn iso image to DVD using my Laptops DVD writer, but I am unable to do so.
I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and have used brasero, gnomebaker and acetoneiso burner. All of these burner throws the ...
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Can't install nor try ubuntu 12.10, system halted
tried to find a solution but I wasn't able so far.
I downloaded the torrent version of ubuntu 12.10 and burned it onto a dvd and created a bootable stick using unetbootin... the thing is, when ...
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Is there a way to create an installation CD instead of a DVD? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I burn the 790Meg ISO to a CD?
Is there also a way to create an installation CD instead of a DVD for the latest version of Ubuntu 12.10 ?
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DVD RW+ Not showing up
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro A120 and my built in DVD Drive is not opening any cd/dvd/dvd rw that am trying to play on them. the drive seems to be mounted and recongnized:
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Is there a abcde equivalent for DVD/Blu-Ray Discs?
When I converted my CD collection to mp3 several years ago, I used abcde.
The workflow basically went like this:
Insert CD
Run abcde
abcde ejects the disc
Repeat
I'm looking for a similar workflow ...
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Deja Dup Backup to Cd/Dvd Possible or Not?
I started to use Linux/Ubuntu 12.04 last week. I'm a new comer. I liked this O.S. But I have a question which I couldn't find the answer here and by google search.
The question is "Can I get scheduled ...
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“sr0” I/O read boot error in Xubuntu 12.10
Just recently upgraded Xubuntu 12.10 after having installed 12.04 originally. Ever since that happened, any time I inserted a disk into my DVD/CD reader/writer I would end up getting a number of ...
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How do I burn the 12.10 790MB ISO to a CD?
How do I burn the latest 12.10 790MB ISO to a CD?
My burning software says insert a disk but 700MB CD's are too small. I tried a DVD and that didn't work either. Please help.
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Where can I find a 12.10 DVD image?
While I'm open to buying a DVD from the shop, I'd rather download a DVD image, but I can't find it on the Download page (only the CD images and the option to buying a DVD).
I have slow internet where ...
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Why does upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 using a CD/DVD still require download?
When I attempted to upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10, there was no autorun feature for the upgrade. So I went into Update Manager, Settings, and clicked "Add Volume" and it added the DVD I had downloaded ...
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Fast way to burn DVD-R (UDF)?
We could create ISO-9660 DVDs by piping mkisofs into cdrecord.
For UDF, the procedure seems to be convoluted and slow. It creates a temporary blank 4GB file, then writes data into it, and only then ...
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Particular DVD playback garbled. Works fine in Windows and OS X. Other DVDs work in Ubuntu
I've got a particular video DVD that doesn't playback properly in Ubuntu 12.04. Neither Movie Player or VLC can play it; the audio and video are garbled/corrupted and choppy. I've tested half a dozen ...
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DVD ROM with interactive Uni activities won't install on Ubuntu
I have just started an Open Uni degree and been supplied with a DVD ROM which has interactive activities, including video and audio to watch/listen to. Apparently you have to "install" the DVD and ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 not displaying DVD drive
I'm new to Ubuntu and Linux in general. After installing it and seeing that most of the stuff runs like I'm used to on Windows, but then there are some things that keep arising and I have to solve, so ...
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Don't recognize the cd/dvd unit acer aspire timeline 5810tz
Friends,
I am Miguel from Aguascalientes, Mexico. Two days ago I migrate to ubuntu 12.04, I'am so happy but my cds and dvds only may recognized when the disk is in the unit.
I try modified the fstab ...
