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Questions about DVD media, including playback, mounting, players, burning and editing. Questions may pertain to both video and data DVDs.

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DVD shrinking. Problem installing DVD95 Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

I am new to the forum. I have used Ubuntu in the past. However, my Command-Line skills are rather limited. DVD players are becoming obsolete so I decided to make my DVD movies into iso files, ...
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How do I make my USB DVD drive show up when I run a windows XP program on virtualbox?

When I plug in my portable dvd drive to my laptop usb, it shows up with the disc being read. But as soon as I start my windows xp program on virtualbox, it disappears. I’m not sure how to fix this as ...
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Determine if DVD is DVD-R or DVD+R

Is there an Ubuntu/Linux command or app that will determine if a DVD is a DVD-R or DVD+R (DVD-RW or DVD+RW etc.)? Or that will display all the Media Identification Code information of a disc, ...
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External DVD driver doesn't play the disc properly

Question: can you recommend an external DVD player that I can use for watching legal movies in Europe (region code: 2) using Ubuntu 18.04? I bought a new notebook and an external DVD player because ...
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VLC won't play DVD's on Xubuntu 18.04.2 - can't access mediabuntu to install libdvdcss2

I am setting up a Dell laptop with Xubuntu 18.04.2. It seems to be working with wifi and other things, but I can't play a DVD in VLC or the native Parole Media Player. Have no trouble with my other ...
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WSL 2 Access DVD-ROM

I have been playing around with Windows Subsystem for Linux v2 (WSL 2). I have Ubuntu with WSL 2 correctly configured. I have a large collection of DVDs that I am in the middle of backing up to my ...
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How can I restore DVD drive operation following most recent Ubuntu r19.04 `apt upgrade`

Some time in the last day or two, following one of the recent apt update-s the DVD driver on my desktop has stopped working. between: 2019-09-15 (UTC) or so until: 2019-09-20 (UTC) After several ...
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How to create an Ubuntu application CD/DVD with autorun?

Is it possible to burn an Ubuntu app on a CD/DVD, and make an autorun for it, just like Windows? If yes: How to do it with a Snap application? Consider I have downloaded an app from Software Center ...
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Video Players malfunction in various ways

Here's a screenshot of VLC Media Player on a DVD: IF I try to play a CD by using Videos, it says that "DVD Source is required to play the file, but is not installed" If i follow the link from there ...
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After installing an optical drive in a pc ubuntu refuses to boot

After installing an optical drive in a pc ubuntu refuses to boot. I get a black screen, no error message. If I remove the drive it works again. Booting with recovery mode freezes up too. ps: its not ...
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Installation DVD is not actually bootable

I’ve been unsuccessful in my attempts (three attempts to date) at creating a bootable DVD using the online iso of Ubuntu Mate 18.04.3 (Bionic) 32-bit version, which I downloaded from https://ubuntu-...
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Im unable to rip a couple of DVD´s in linux ?? Acidrip/Handbrake/DVDRip did not work

Yesterday i went to a Thrift store (recyclestore, 2nd hands goods) i bought 5 dvds for 1.50 euro total there (around 1 dollar i guess,. for all 5 combined). I tried ripping these DVDś at home with ...
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cannot play DVDs with ubuntu 18.04

I used to have Ubuntu 16.04 and I always could play DVDs with VLC. However, after an update to 18.04 I cannot do that anymore. I have already tried the following: sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-...
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What is a good DVD authoring application for Ubuntu 19.04?

I'm looking for a DVD authoring application for Ubuntu 19.04 DeVeDeNG works, but I'm not happy with the main menu. Bombono works great in 18.04, but not 19.04. Any other suggestions for an ...
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Cannot find welcome window in Bionic Beaver DVD

I am trying to install Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Desktop (Bionic Beaver) on an HP Laptop 15-da0xxx. It's currently running Windows 10 Home. I downloaded ubuntu-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso from https://ubuntu....
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DVDrw Drives locked in Read only mode Ubuntu 18.04.2

I am running Ubuntu 18.04.2 on my PC and for some silly ass reason BOTH of my DVDrw Drives are coming up as read only. How do I fix this. 1st(top) drive is a _NEC DVD+/-RW ND-3650A (105C) 2nd (...
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DVD Installation noapic error

Hi I'm trying ti install Ubuntu from DVD. I Boot from the DVD and it gets as far as a page of text with the error; "end kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work" !Boot with apic=debug ...
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Unable to play DVD or locate its contents

I have a DVD I want to watch but I can't find the disc drive in the OS. The drive itself turns on, spins up and then turns off. I've checked media folders and have a "mydvd" and "usr" folder and ...
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Ubuntu not reading CD/DVD drive

When I insert a CD into my CD/DVD drive, Ubuntu doesn't seem to recognize the drive. When I run sudo lshw -C disk the only output I get is *-disk description: ATA ...
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What is the most accurate way to make a digital copy of a DVD?

I'm interested in making accurate, future-proof digital copies of some family movies which are on DVD. What is the recommended way of doing this in 2019? I am inclined to think that it would be best ...
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New PC supplied with cheap no-name DVD drive that won't play

This question DVD : no medium found on /dev/sr0 when there is a DVD describes the problem perfectly. I have libdvdcss2 installed: adam@gondolin:~$ apt-cache show libdvdcss2 Package: libdvdcss2 ...
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Why is Nautilus drag and drop file copy from optic media so slow?

Back-ground: I am copying data from old back-ups on CD-ROMS and DVDs to the hard-drive of my new PC (mb: Z-390, cpu:Intel Core i7, hd:2TB, ssd: M.2 type) from CD-ROMs and DVDs in the optic drive to ...
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Macbook does'nt recognise USB or DVD

I have an old Macbook (mid 2010, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, running with macOS Sierra) and want to install Ubuntu on it (instead of macOS). I made a bootable flashdrive (with Ubuntu 16.04.6 ...
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Proprietary DVD/Blu-ray Software Drivers for Ubuntu 18.04.02

Do you have a reliable source for proprietary DVD/Blu-ray Software Drivers? I've tried several times contacting Fluendo Multimedia, but have not received a response to date.
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UBUNTU-18.04.1 Desktop-amd64 [duplicate]

I have downloaded the ISO from the website and have burned a DVD disc. I now want to load UBUNTU onto my PC and do not know how to proceed, please help.
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How to reset CD/DVD drive

I'm using a Windows DVD ripping program under Play-On-Linux and every now and then, despite removing the DVD contents from the program, when I click the 'Unmount' in Nautilus a message box pops up ...
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Making a DVDplayer playable DVD in ubuntu

I wanted to burn some home videos for my grandmother. However I can not seem to do this in ubuntu. I was recommended DeVeDe but I am not able to find it in the software center and the download link on ...
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Why do Windows and Linux see different files on a DVD ROM?

I have a DVD ROM with some teaching resources on it (Headway Beginner's English teaching teacher's DVD). When I look at the DVD from a Ubuntu machine, I see one set of files (which includes a setup-...
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Retrieving data from old DVD with open session

Given that my current Easy HDD Recorder by PackardBell is not working anymore, I have a bunch of recorded DVDs with an open session which I cannot see on the other devices. In particular, it seems ...
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GPU hangs and can't decode DVDs on Intel Core i3 HD 2500

I have an Intel i3-3240T (HD 2500 graphics) running Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. I have two (presumably related?) graphics issues: Every so often when using Chrome and e.g. Google Maps or another graphics-...
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How do I copy an encrypted DVD in Ubuntu 16.04?

I have tried several programs such as Brassero to copy an encrypted DVD but without success. I tried to install libdvdcss but was unable to do it (key not found?). What version of libdvdcss do I ...
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Burning DVD's on Ubuntu (NOT ISO-files)

I have a load of self-compiled video dvd's made on Cyberlink PowerDirector which I used to burn to dvd's through Ashampoo Burning Studio 16. These are NOT images of DVD (ie. ISO-files) but instead ...
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How to burn an Audio DVD

I bought some 192KHZ, 24 Bit FLAC Files. I would like to burn these to an audio DVD so I can play them through my Blu Ray player on my home system. How would I go about doing this?
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Can't play DVDs with Ubuntu 18.04

After upgrading to 18.04 my external DVD player no longer plays dvd. I checked that the usual suspects of packages were installed: libdvdnav4 is already the newest version (6.0.0-1). libdvdread4 is ...
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Trouble Booting from DVD on Windows 10

This is my first time installing another OS. I am running Windows 10 on a Lenovo Thinkpad, and am trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Windows. I have already partitioned my drive so there is free ...
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Video (Totem) wont play DVD's while others (VLC) can

So a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 that's been updated and had the appropriate packages and repositories installed as outlined HERE I've also installed VLC and Handbrake handbrake via an up to date ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 not recognizing CD/DVD

I am trying to copy files to a CD, but whenever I insert a disk, nothing shows up in the file manager. I have been reading all over on why this is a problem, but none of the solutions I've found so ...
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Make VLC default to open video DVD?

When inserting a video DVD, I used to be able to click on the DVD an have it open in VLC. When I installed Handbrake, it took ownership of opening video DVDs. I know how to assign "open with" to a ...
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Is there any frontend tool / widget for eject application (opening / closing disc tray)?

The eject command allows to eject / open CD-ROM / DVD-ROM disc tray as well as close it. You could type it in the console on most (?) of the Linux distributions. Ubuntu is no exception. The icon for ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS won't play a commercial DVD

The following output appears when I attempt to run a commercial DVD in totem. Can anyone explain what the output is telling me? cale@fit-PC4:~$ totem cale@fit-PC4:~$ totem (totem:3529): GLib-...
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Brasero got stuck in image checksum after burning, is the burning process compromised?

I was burning the iso image of the last Ubuntu distro with Brasero, and it got stuck doing the checksum thing it does after burning the image. So I canceled and it finished doing whatever it was doing....
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Easiest to install and use DVD writing backup software for documents? Ubuntu 16.04

No apps are showing as installed by default, for burning CD or DVDs for document backup. Would prefer to use Ubuntu software center to find things but nothing shows under the usual keyword search
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Virtual CD / DVD burner

I have a file in iTunes on Windows in VirtualBox that can be burned to CD / DVD. I could burn this file to a CD / DVD and rip it to my computer but I don't want to waste a CD / DVD so I'm looking for ...
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Can I reuse Linux DVDs to install on other computers?

I made a bootable DVD with Lubuntu and another with Kali Linux. Different DVD's, of course. Can I use the DVD's again to install Lubuntu or Kali on another computer? Are they reusable after one ...
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DVD Creating / Burning Tools for Ubuntu 18.04

I am a serious collector of professional boxing videos and prefer watching them on old-fashioned tv/dvd player set instead of any computer set-up. Previously as a Windows user I have done 100's of ...
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How to mount a CD in Dosbox using 18.04?

I've been trying to mount a CD in Dosbox unsuccessfully after having followed various threads out there. The problem seems to be not recognizing the directory where my CD is. When I look at the ...
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Tried to copy multi-session DVD - got "k3b does not support copying multi-session DVD or blu-ray disks" what to do?

I have 4.7 Gb DVD-disc with some archival data and I want to copy it to other DVD disk (or read to ISO-file). K3b shows that it has 3 sessions: Usually I use K3b for disc writing and copying. But in ...
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How to install libdvdcss.so.2 (Library) to Ubuntu 18.04

I want to make a copy of a DVD with Brasero. But it asks for libdvdcss.so.2. I already did what was suggested at How should I install libdvdcss.so.2 (Library) to Ubuntu 16.04 But it didn't work.
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How to try Ubuntu 18.04 Live Server?

I downloaded an Ubuntu 18.04 Live Server ISO. I burned it onto a DVD-RW. I can boot from that DVD-RW. I press "tab" while booting as described here: If you act quickly enough, hitting the TAB key you ...
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Installing appropriate software to play DVDs

I would like to watch a DVD. However, I have run into difficulties. Here is what I have done so far. started by following these instructions Specifically, here are the steps identified in that web ...
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