Questions about DVD media, including playback, mounting, players, burning and editing. Questions may pertain to both video and data DVDs.
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Where is the ubuntu magazine pdf located on the DVD?
Where is the ubuntu magazine pdf located on the DVD that is distributed with the magazine??
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Ubuntu 12.04 won't mount Samsung SE-218BB
I can't seem to mount the drive even though Samsung advertises it as being Linux compatible when switching it over to AV mode (by ejecting the tray and holding the eject button until the LED comes on) ...
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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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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 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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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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Issue with Multiple DVD writers in ubuntu 12.10
I have an issue with DVD drives. I've installed more than 2 DVD drives on the PC, but I am unable to mounting those drive.
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How do I boot Ubuntu off a DVD?
I've burnt the Ubuntu 12.10 image onto a DVD and I'm not sure what to do next. How do I boot off of it and can I go back to Windows 7 when I'm done with Ubuntu? I used this as my tutorial:
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Ubuntu 12.04 Can't Play DVDs with Libdvdcss installed
I've installed VLC, libdvdread4, libdvdcss, Medibuntu and Ubuntu restricted extras AND ran this line of code...
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
...on my Ubuntu 12.04 but whenever I ...
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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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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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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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Audio CDs not auto-mounting
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 laptop with LG HL-DT-ST DVD RAM GSA-U10N drive and Ubuntu 12.04 system on it. Recently I have noticed a strange behavior: automounting only some of the CDs/DVDs that I ...
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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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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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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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Mounting a USB CD/DVD drive (have used dmesg)
I have used dmesg to find out that the drive is on dev/sr1 but i am not sure how to mount this because I have only ever mounted USB sticks in the past.
Could someone please help?
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How to I add a command to be available from the auto run box for DVD videos?
In System Settings --> Details --> Removable Media there are drop downs to let you select what to do when you insert various media types.
I've written some scripts called things like ripmovie ...
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no cd rom/dvd detected in kubuntu 12.04
I have had kubuntu installed for sometime and the CDrom was working now it will not detect?
I have a dual boot dell desktop and the cdrom works in windows.
things I've tried.
sudo fdisk -l
Disk ...
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Cannot do fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 while booting from DVD: “soft lockup” bug
Hello Ubunutu Community!
I'm trying to do fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 to completely replace Windows 7. I downloaded 32 bit version of Ubuntu 13.04 from this website, burned the image to DVD (I made ...
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Trouble installing Ubuntu 13.04 from DVD
After having a virtual version of Ubuntu 12.04 on my Windows 7 computer for a while, I intended to install Ubuntu 13.04 on the computer itself today in parallel with Windows 7.
Since I don't have a ...
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k9copy & acidrip do not see DVD but VLC plays it just fine
Bought "Up in the Air". Like to make backup copies to take w/ me when I travel. VLC plays the dvd perfectly. I run either k9copy or acidrip and neither one 'sees' the movie in sr0. I've had this ...
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12.04LTS detects data DVDs but not movies
Ubuntu won't detect movie DVDs but will detect data discs.
dmesg shows:
parish@kubuntu:~$ dmesg|grep sr0
[ 1.820162] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 62x/5x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 1.820373] sr ...
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installing ubuntu from dvd
i have downloaded ubuntu to give it a go on a spare pc.
i followed the instructions and set up a dvd. it works and brings up the demo page if you put it in a pc already booted up, but i can not get ...
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CD mounts but DVD does not mount
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS through .iso image on DVD drive.
Problem:- if a CD is loaded in the drive, it mounts correctly. But DVD does not mount.
I am SURE that it is a DVD drive.
On WinXP, I ...
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i need to put ubuntu on a dead apple desktop using an apple laptop… how do i do that?
my apple desktop computer only displays a flashing question mark when i turn it on. i tried resetting the PRAM and doing some other suggested actions. the only suggestion i didnt try was installing a ...
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my ubuntu is damaged and won't load, I want to do a fresh installation
I have a Dell Vostro with a damaged UBUNTU that doesn't load at all, I wan to do a fresh installation of it, either via USB stick or via CD, but the other computer that I have is a Mac and I am having ...
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downloaded ubuntu folder doesn't have .iso suffix
I just downloaded ubuntu-12.10.desktop-amd64 to make a bootable DVD. This folder seems to be a zipped folder and it doesn't have the iso suffix.
Does this folder need to be unzipped prior to ...
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DVD drive not reading dvd's
I have done the regionset thing, but the drive doesnt find a dvd when I do. I have added the css file
I have tried manually mounting the drive and get
Failed to mount '/dev/sr0' to '/media/apt/'
E: ...
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Looking for a powerdvd-like feature mouse wheel controls scan speed on DVD playback
I like powerdvd's feature of how the mouse wheel controls the scan forward/back speed while watching a dvd.
Move the wheel forward, the dvd starts scanning forward at say, 3x speed. Wheel forward ...
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Computer Does Not Recognize Ubuntu 12.10 on USB or DVD disc
My computer has an older version of Ubuntu that I just installed the other day. After realizing how outdated that version was, I downloaded the 12.10 version to the computer. I also saved it to USB ...
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Why can't I burn ISO images on Ubuntu?
I'm having trouble burning iso files on ubuntu. I just downloaded an image file and when i insert my blank DVD-R in my laptop CD/DVD Creator opens up.
It tells me to drag a file to the window so i ...
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Difficulties Burning with DVD-R ubuntu12.04 LTS
My optical drive does not detect DVD-r but detects DVD+r on ubuntu How should i preceed.
Drives detects and burns with DVD+R CD-R
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After installing software from Medibuntu, not all dvds play; dvds play only my desktop computer but not on my laptop
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my desktop and Toshiba Satellite laptop. Then, I installed everything shown on the pages for Medibuntu on desktop and laptop. Now I have 2 issues:
the laptop will play ...
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DVD file not playing
I have some home-made DVD’s but when I try to use handbrake to make a mp4 file of them it didn’t work, so i tried to simply play the file but it gave me this error
Could not open location; you ...
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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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 ...
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Burning a password protected disk
Is it possible to burn a password protected DVD with Brasero / K3B / xfburn? If not, is there any other software that can do it?
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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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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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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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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 ...
