trouble with Ubuntu plug-ins

i installed Ubuntu last night, and iv'e been trying to download the appropriate drivers to play Mp3's, DVD's and such...

i've downloaded the plug-in to make Youtube work, but i still cant play any DVD's. each time i try, i receive an error message "Could not read from resource" with any DVD i try.

anyone know what could be the cause of this?

 

Try Downloading VLC player mate it should play everything you throw @ it

You need to make sure that you have a “universe” mirror in your /etc/apt/sources.list

Code:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd

and to Install VLC Plugin for Mozilla Firefox

Code:

sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-vlc

This will complete the installation but if you want to play DVD without any 3rd party player then try this

Install the libdvdread3 package (no need to add third party repositories) via Synaptic or command line:

Code:

sudo apt-get install libdvdread3 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

Then open a terminal window and execute:

Code:

 sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

 

thanks man, that's just what i was looking for, the libdvd plugin wasnt showing up in my package manager...

the code to acquire the VLC player, do i paste those in a run command or a terminal?

 

Terminal, definitely. If you get any error messages post them here.

 

got the player installed no problem, like it alot more than the totem player

thanks you guys!