jarocooke
Maximum PC Member Since: May 26, 2007
Total Posted Comments: 2 Comments on 1 Articles
Maximum PC Member Since: May 26, 2007Total Posted Comments: 2 Comments on 1 Articles
Posted Comments
Must Read Articles
Feature
Review
Feature
Feature
Feature
Most Popular Articles
This Month's Issue
FEATURE Build a Crazy-Fast $647 PCFEATURE Six Single-Band 802.11n Routers ReviewedHOW TOTweak BitTorrent and FirefoxFEATUREClose Look at ClarkdaleWHITE PAPERLCD Panel Technology
Technology News
Computer Cooling Fans
Computer Cases
PC Game Controllers
PC Games
Computer Hardware
Headphones
MP3 Players
Stream Video
Computer Mouse
Monitors
Motherboards
NAS Storage
Networking
Laptop Computers
DVD Burner
Digital Cameras
Portable Storage
Computer Accessories
Smartphone
Antivirus Software
Sound Cards
Speakers
Computer Systems
Thumb Drives
Video Cameras
Video Card Reviews
Water Cooling
Gadgets
- Keyboards
© 2010 Future US, Inc. All rights reserved.
You Can Switch to Linux!
Posted 05/26/2007 at 09:20:49pm
Hi there,
The restricted software page on the Ubuntu help.ubuntu.com page helps.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
First install a few necessary packages with the following command.
sudo apt-get install libdvdread3 libxine1-ffmpeg
You'll need to add the medibuntu repostiory (link on the webpage) afterwards and then install libdvdcss2 with following command.
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2
I would recommend using the Mplayer video player to watch the DVDs, as some of others will still complain about not being able to open the DVD, even with these pieces of software.
If you have a wide screen laptop you'll need to manually sort out the aspect ratio in Mplayer (hopefully a bug that will be fixed in future versions). Type the following command into a terminal.
nano ~/.mplayer/config
Now add monitoraspect="16:10" to the bottom of the file and exit nano (saving obviously).
Done! Oh one more thing, make sure you don't live in the US!!! (because of that DMCA legislation, god forbid you could watch your own DVDs)
You Can Switch to Linux!
Posted 05/26/2007 at 08:55:42pm
What you should be doing (from Feisty onwards) is going to the the System, then Administration menu and clicking "Restricted Drivers Manager".
The Window that comes up should list hardware that requires restricted (proprietary) drivers. Against the Nvidia entry there is a check box under the "Enabled" column heading. All you have to do is click the check box and it does the rest for you. I think it even asks you if you want to restart the computer, so that you can start using the new drivers.
I don't know about ATI drivers, but I would expect it works the same way.
This way users aren't bombarded with dependencies, terminals or commands to enable the drivers. It is all done for you!