Questions about DVD media, including playback, mounting, players, burning and editing. Questions may pertain to both video and data DVDs.
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DVDs and CDs not recognized [duplicate]
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Inserted DVD disc not recognized
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed on my computer (Sony Vaio VGN-NS205N). It reads some CDs and DVDs just fine, but many others it will ...
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dvds not able to play in VLC nor Movie Player, 12.04 [duplicate]
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Could not read dvd despite having restricted extras
im trying to play a movie on my ubuntu machine using VLC or Movie Player.
the source of the movie is a dvd.
both ...
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Can't read dvd in Xubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
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How can I play encrypted DVD movies?
My laptop has Xubuntu 12.04 installed and I can't read dvds burned in my dvd recorder.
To read my dvds, I had to use a external ...
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unable to mount read-only DVD with photos
I have a working Samsung CD/DVD player with (SATA connection) and i'm running latest updated version of 12.04. Audio CDs and video DVDs appear in the devices sidebar, but I have a DVD from a ...
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Codecs for Movie Player to play DVD's with encryption [duplicate]
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How can I play encrypted DVD movies?
How do I install a DVD decryption library?
I'm trying to play a DVD movie from netflix and Movie Player can't read it. I installed ...
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dvd play back and game play back
I am having a problem and cannot seem to fix it. I had Ubuntu 10.04. It worked flawlessly. I really liked the 12.04 version so I upgraded. 12.04 worked really good but something happened and the ...
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Where's ubuntu desktop 12.04.1 dvd version?
Where can I download ubuntu desktop 12.04.1 dvd version？
I don't like LTS,I want to download dvd full version.
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How can I Integrate Ubuntu 32 and 64 bit into a single DVD [duplicate]
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DVD with both 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu
I have both 32 and 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 iso, but how can I integrate them (both 32 bit and 64 bit) into a single DVD with a menu to ...
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DVD not detected?
As i insert a DVD in my drive (on a laptop) using Kubuntu 12.04, the DVD is not detected. The drive takes the DVD, I can hear it munching on it for a while, and then nothing. Even ejecting the DVD ...
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Ubuntu center doesn't accept ubuntu DVD
I just wanted to install a disk manager with the help of ubuntu software center. To install this disk manager ubuntu asks me to insert the ubuntu CD/DVD. I inserted the CD and clicked on "Continue" (I ...
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optimum slice size for backing up data to DVD
How big should a slice be for a DVD, assuming that the file system restricts the size?
Referencing:
http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/DVD-file-size-td4572772.html
should slices be 1GB or so? What's an ...
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Why does DVD playback still not work after installing libdvdcss2?
I have installed libdvdcss2, but I still get this error when trying to play DVDs:
libdvdread4 was installed by default (This is a new System76 Pangolin Performance). I ran the install-css.sh ...
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Bootable dvd installs ubuntu in one computer but not in other…Why? [duplicate]
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My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?
I have 2 computers, Windows 7 Intel.
On one computer Ubuntu boot-able DVD (AMD 64) works ...
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How to remove ubuntu and install xp? [duplicate]
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Switching OS from Ubuntu to XP?
dvd player works during start up, but stops after few seconds.
then ubuntu starts up.
so I can't install xp.
I changed bios to dvd on 1.
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My DVD drive is missing and won't eject manually in 12.04
I have just installed 12.04 on my Asus K43SJ with a USB installer.
Now, I can't see my DVD drive in the /media but when I go to the Disk Utility, I can see that it is recognized.
The CD/DVD drive ...
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Burning Snow Leopard DMG on Ubuntu
So I have a SL Copy of Mac OS X Snow Leopard.DMG and I am running Ubuntu 12.0.4. I tried burn the DMG to a DVD using CD/DVD Creator however when I try, it comes up with a message saying
'The size of ...
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Which players are known to be able or not to be able to play DVD saved as a directory on a Toshiba AC100 (ARM)
The answer to this question should help one to choose the player to run in Ubuntu 12.04 on Toshiba AC100 (ARM) if one wants to play a DVD saved in a directory in the filesystem. The layout of the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 DVD images and debian-installer
The Ubuntu 12.04.1 (Precise) Desktop DVD image for the i386 architecture does not seem to include debian-installer, the alternative text-mode installation option. Why so? In 10.04 (Lucid) the DVD used ...
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DVD error when watching movies
Greetings I have about 4 months dabbling in free software. After trying various distros I felt more comfortable with Ubuntu and since then I have lived my life to the end-user distro uneventful and ...
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Can't format DVD+RW disk [closed]
I have a DVD+RW disk that i burned a daily build of elementary OS on and now I'm wanting to format it so I can burn a newer build on it but I haven't been able to format it. I tried using brasero, the ...
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I can not play movie dvd's [duplicate]
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Inserted DVD disc not recognized
I'm running ubuntu 12.04, I put a music cd in the dvd player and it plays it. I put a dvd
to watch a movie and nothing happens. I have ...
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DVD drive unable to eject/load and won't recognize/play anything [closed]
I am running 12.04, and my drive is a Plextor PX 880SA.
My DVD player does not work. Today was my first attempt at trying to use it in months, or maybe even longer, so I'm not sure how long it has ...
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ubuntu-12.04-dvd-amd64.iso only 1.6G?
Is it normal? The old Ubuntu DVD used to be 3.9 GB or more, has a lot of stuff for off-line users really, so what just happened?
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Ubuntu 12.04 on Acer Travelmate can't play encrypted DVD although decryption libraries intalled
Installed 12.04 on Acer Travelmate from scratch (formatted HD).
Installed all codecs and decryption libraries as per guide:
- Medibuntu repository
- libdvdnav4, libdvdread4, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad ...
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Problems with dvd drive in Ubuntu 12.04
I recently upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04, hoping my dvd drive and usb problems will go away. I inserted dvd (some s/w installation) and it would not show up on the desktop. I then did dmesg | grep sr0 ...
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How to install every thing on from the installation DVD?
I have downloaded the dvd (12.04) and I want to sure I have installed every thing on it, so that I may save my INTERNET usage when I need to install new packages.
That is, apt wont download the ...
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bootable disk and application on one DVD?
I have a program I want to use that only runs on a Linux OS. I'm in the process of creating an Ubuntu bootable DVD so my Windows 7 computer can run the program. My question is can I also burn the ...
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My DVD drive won't detect any CD media (DVDs seem to work). Is there a way to fix this?
I have a similar problem to what is described here:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/dv7-3079wm-BD-DVD-CD-drive-grinding-sound-won-t-read-CD-R-data/td-p/1211755
I have not tried ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 dvd/rw has stopped mounting and cannot gain access to dvd/rw
I have followed a number of threads over the last 6-8 hours but I am unable to get my removable disk drive to mount (either automatically or via the terminal command line).
The processor is an AMD64 ...
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Inserted DVD disc not recognized
I was trying to watch a DVD on my Ubuntu laptop, however, whenever I insert the disc, the CD/DVD drive icon on the Computer pane disappears, seems that it cannot detect what type of disc was inserted.
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What cd/dvd burning software should I use?
I have tried countless cd/dvd burning software on ubuntu 12.04 and none of them work for me, any ideas guys?
I've tried tovidgui, bombono dvd,and mestelix, they are all so very confusing is there ...
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How can I find out the file path for my laptop's dvd drive
Normally I insert a DVD in the drive and I get a prompt that leads me to the movie player app and all is well. How can I find the drive file in the event the prompt doesn't show up or something goes ...
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Why are both old and new optical drives not detected in Ubuntu or in Windows?
I'm running 12.04LTS.
So I asked this same question on the ubuntuforums and was recommended to get a new drive. I've done that and still have the same problem. Here's the original ...
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Accessing DVD or USB drive [closed]
When I insert a DVD or USB drive into the computer it does not open. Are there additional drivers that I need to install? I know the USB drive is working because I installed Ubuntu using it.
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Sound glitches (repeats) momentarily
Since upgrading to 12.04 (64-bit), i've noticed an issue while watching DVDs in VLC - the sound will "glitch" - that is, it'll replay a tiny sample over and over for about a second or so, and then ...
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How do I make dvd::rip not freeze halfway through a DVD?
When trying to rip a DVD, it freezes after 30 minutes.
When I try to transcode a small part of the dvd,
I get this error.
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Dell m4400 cannot recognize blank cd/dvd
It is a strange problem. I am able to recognize CD-R/DVD-R media that has data/wav files on it, but I cannot seem to get Brasero/K3B etc., to find a blank disk. When I had this machine split with ...
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ripping a dvd into an iso image using k9 but getting no sound
I m trying to rip a dvd using k9 from ubuntu software center.I have saved it as an iso file.I have burned it three times and each time the video turns out great but I have no sound in vlc or a ...
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Why does my drive sometimes fail to read DVDs?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.
Somewhere in the last couple of upgrades, DVD reading has gotten to be just about impossible. CDs work just fine in the same drive.
I have all of the libdvd* packages ...
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How to install VMWare Workstation from dvd - but do it from the command line?
I hope I haven't just missed it if this was asked before. I did some searching but there's so many posts and I didn't see anything close enough to what my problem is.
I need to install vmware ...
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Can I use Nautilus to successfully clone a Video-DVD?
I'm a user who isn't new to Ubuntu (2 years experience), but I have not been able to find a way to get Nautilus to let me copy files of a Video-DVD.
I have libdvdcss2 installed, but I cannot get ...
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Can't find my DVD drive in Ubuntu 12.04
I am completely new to Linux, due to some problems in my Windows I decided to give Linux a try. I am quite liking it accept for some minor issues.
The biggest of them is that I cannot find my DVD ...
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Brasero doesn't detect dvds [closed]
I am using brasero to burn an audio project, but when I burn, it only shows me an image file option. As it stands, I have to create the file and then burn to disc. Strangely, the brasero iso burner ...
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Ripping DVD movie to near lossless video and audio quality
In the past I've been backing up my DVDs films as an .iso image to ensure that I have the best possible quality and that I could at a later date encode a movie/show to any format I want.
However, as ...
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How to install libdvdcss? [closed]
I'm relatively new to Ubuntu and I'm trying to figure out how to play DVDs. I've read through a lot of forums, and got to the one asking how to read encrypted DVDs. I was able to do the first step and ...
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How do I rip a dvd including menus and extras to a menu driven divx file (or any lossy format that supports menus)?
I am asking exactly this question for the same reason, but would like to archive dvds as small, low quality video, while preserving the menu choosing experience.
I would like to rip my dvds to ...
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How do I burn a DVD with more than 3.8 GB data?
I use Kubuntu 12.04 with KDE 4.8.3 and wodim / genisoimage 1.1.11, but the problem is on Ubuntu (with Brasero) and occurred in Oneiric as well.
Whenever I try to burn more than 3.8GB (approaching the ...
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How to select installing packages via DVD while installing Ubuntu?
I am new to Ubuntu (or Linux). I have just started to get acquainted with Fedora and now I want to switch to Ubuntu. I was wondering if I install via DVD, will all the packages (including ...
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Ripping DVD to iso - Accurately
I have been using Brasero to rip my DVD collection to .iso. However, I've discovered some errors in some of the DVDs through playback e.g. VLC player would just stop playing the iso file when a bad ...
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Is it possible to install LibreOffice from Ubuntu DVD to Ubuntu studio?
Because of download restriction, I would like to know if it is possible to install LibreOffice (or other software) from Ubuntu 12.04 DVD to Ubuntu studio?
I have Ubuntu studio 12.04 installed and ...
