That is odd, since my box played all north american regional DVD's... Though
I did have a problem with one I imported from Japan, but then again one of my
two ultra cheep set top DVD players had no problem with it (The other
complained about the region code as well)
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> The error you're getting is similar to the one I get when I attempt to
> play a region-locked DVD (secondary text is "cannot open resource").
> Even though my player is set for the correct region. I don't have DeCSS
> installed (since I don't like to break the law, even really bad laws
> like the DMCA), so I guess most commercial DVD's just won't play on my
> Ubuntu box.
>
> Michael Sammartano wrote:
>
> > Quite possible that the dvd is encrypted with a proprietary code... I
> > can play some dvd's on SuSE but not all.
> >
> > Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to play a DVD on Ubunto. The Totem player starts
> >> automatically, then up pops an error window stating that "Totem could
> >> not play 'dvd://'." (cannot open file "dvd://")
> >>
> >> Can someone point me in a direction toward getting it to work?
> >>
> >> I'm happy (and sad) to say that this is the first problem I've come
> >> across with Ubunto.
> >
> >
> >
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