On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:10:13PM +0000, Greg Thomas wrote:

Can any recommend a DVD player for Linux (Ubuntu, specifically)?

The default one, Totem Movie Player, will play the DVD, but has no navigation at all other than the slider bar at the bottom, and that's a bit flaky at best. It also only works when a DVD is inserted; when starting from the Applications menu it complains of missing codecs. Or perhaps I've just missed something?

I tend to use to use xine for that, follows DVD menus as you'd expect.

Cheers,

Greg Thomas wrote:

Can any recommend a DVD player for Linux (Ubuntu, specifically)?

I'm pretty sure it's a known bug that Totem doesn't follow DVD menus properly. There's some issue which I can't remember of the top of my head......

Anyway, I will third xine. It works brilliantly for me on Ubuntu. It's great because it allows you skip chapters which are normally blocked from skipping on normal DVD players.

If you want to set it up to autoplay a DVD when you put it in;

Go to... Systems->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media Multimedia tab and add

xine -f -B dvd://

in the "Video DVD Discs" Command box and tick the "Play video DVD discs when inserted" checkbox.

The -f there defaults to fullscreen and begins to play the DVD straight away so no mucking about required. :) the -B means borderless which is cool, to move the window around alt+click&drag (if you didn't know already) Xine commands are f (or double click video) to bring it out of full screen, g to bring up the GUI.

Another tip, if you've got Compiz enabled and you move the window around or minimise it you'll notice the video overlay not working as you'd expect, leaving a blue background where the video should be... This is solved by opening the preferences in Xine (right-click->Settings->Setup) change Configuration experience level to "Master of the known universe" change to the video tab and select xshm in the video driver to use.

--Simon

On Dec 7, 2007 10:10 PM, Greg Thomas Greg@thethomashome.co.uk wrote:

Can any recommend a DVD player for Linux (Ubuntu, specifically)?

I'm not sure if I can actually recommend it, but I use vlc. I can play DVDs and their menus, or you can just play the VOB files directly.

Tim.