Enabling DVD playback in Ubuntu 9.04

I have just finished installing Ubuntu 9.04 on a Gateway laptop, everything worked well from video to wireless until I popped in a DVD to watch. Did the updates and still nothing, until I ran across this command on the Internet, tried it and everything is golden now.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread4

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

The explanation when the commands are needed are printed below:

The movie players provided in Ubuntu can play back unencrypted DVDs. However, many commercial DVDs are encrypted with a weak algorithm called Content Scrambling System (CSS). You can enable playback of encrypted DVDs with MPlayer, xine and Totem-xine by installing libdvdread4.

The CSS key sets are licensed to manufacturers who incorporate them into products such as DVD drives, DVD players and DVD movie releases. Most DVD players are equipped with a CSS Decryption module.

Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition is free

Canonical on April 20 announced that Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition is free to download from Thursday April 23 along with the server version of the operating system. The netbook version, known as the Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix, will be available on April 30.

Windows 7 is opportunity for Linux

“Windows 7 is opportunity for Linux” is an interesting article written by Nick Farrell at theinquirer.net. I was doing some research for the next version Ubuntu Linux 9.04, "Jaunty Jackalope" which comes out in April 20 and ran across it. Enjoy…

Source: The Inquirer - http://www. /inquirer/news/646/1051646/windows-opportunity-linux

Linux Desktop News from Google

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Htop, a tip-top ncurses interactive tool for system monitoring ... Free Software Magazine - USA ... to use this dinky interactive application to manage running applications and processes on your desktop. All GNU/Linux distros come with top installed. ... See all stories on this topic

Full version of Windows 7 on Samsung Netbooks? Maybe CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA ... OS onto a desktop or laptop as opposed to buying a seperate OS from Microsoft. Also, netbooks with Linux/Android will just increase in capability making ... See all stories on this topic

Does Linux Need A Desktop To Realize Its Potential? InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA Word from an open source conference this week is that some key Linux proponents don't see the need for a desktop product. I'm not certain how it realizes ... See all stories on this topic

Aussies! Grab a sub $200 Linux desktop - today only! iTWire - Australia You need to supply your own monitor, keyboard and mouse - but to get a fully working and relatively modern Ubuntu Linux desktop computer sent direct for ... See all stories on this topic

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Linux Desktop - My Ubuntu Experience

I have gone 45 days using solely my Ubuntu Linux laptop to conduct all facets of my daily computing functions. These include work related tasks as well as personal tasks. I will have to say, if there are any doubts of Ubuntu’s feasibility in the desktop environment, they should be put to rest.

First off, I was very impressed with the performance of the operating system on a modest running laptop that only had 512 MB of RAM. I have friends running Windows Vista system with 2 to 4 Gigs of RAM enduring terrible performance on their expensive systems. Also, I was pleased with the verity of open-sourced security and system administrative applications that were available and operated flawless on the system. For example, I was able to configure GnuPG communicate securely with encryption. I was also able to connect to remote systems using VPN access as well.

I was able to wireless access points from many different locations, view DVD movies and edit Microsoft office related documents with no problem.

As of today, I am upgrading from the current version of 8.04 to 8.10. I will have the details on that when I have reviewed it.