Re: Can't get dvds or cds to play on linux

On Fri, 1 May 2009, SUMO wrote:


"Michael Mauch" <michael.mauch@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3vsoc6xr5v.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
SUMO wrote:

I have finally found a Linux that's a replacement for Vista called Mandriva
2009. Everything (apart from the low sound output) is working & looking
great but no matter how hard I've tried I can't get it to play DVD's or
CD's.

What are the symptoms? For the CDs (I guess you mean CD audio): if the
CD rotates, but you can't hear the sound, your computer might be missing
an audio cable between your CD drive and the soundcard. You could try a
CD player program that can do digital audio extraction, e.g. kscd. Look
in the settings of your CD player program and try to find something with
"digital".

For the DVDs: if it works with self-made DVDs, but not with DVDs from
the store, your installation might be missing libdvdcss. I'm sorry I
don't know where to get it for Mandriva. Libdvdcss might be illegal in
your country.

If that doesn't help, please describe the problem a bit more verbose
(what programs do you use, what happens?).

Regards...
Michael

Hi, thanks for the info, I've tried everything, my bro was on hours trying to fix it. Seems as if its a problem with the repositories. Progs, codec's etc are all there inc the non free stuff but it won't let you install them. Anyway I've gone back to Ubuntu 8.10 (gnome) with a kde second desktop. Everything seems to be working on the laptop now apart from the wireless net access, apparently a common fault with my Fujitsu Siemens 2735 laptop.

Ta again for all your advice. Sumo

But you still haven't told us anything. He wanted symptoms, what does
or doesn't happen, not what you tried.

For instance, someone could start up a CD player, and then it crashes.
That it crashes is more important than that the application was
started. But if the CD player application runs, but there's no sound,
then at least it gives an indication that the software likely isn't a problem. Like he said, it isn't uncommon to find no audio cable from
the drive to the sound card, since apparently Windows doesn't use that
audio output from the drive. A cd player app that is running but no
sound is bound to be either a missing cable (and I have a DVD writer that
apparently has no analog sound output), or the sound card hasnt' been
set right by a mixer application. This has all been said in this
thread already, but still nobody knows where your problem lies because
you haven't given any details or symptoms, just that you've shotgunned through various things.

You wanted helped, but you've decide you know what's going on even if
you can't solve the problem.

Michael

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