Running linux mint and have dvd veiwing problems

I have been running linux mint on an older HP/compaq box I have, and everything was working great until this week when Im getting lots of errors regarding dvds im trying to watch that worked in it all along.....

any ideas?

 

Post those errors exactly as they appear (copy/paste). Also, try to remember anything that may have changed the system files. Did you just do an update? If so, do you remember what packages were updated?

To troubleshoot, make a new, virgin user and log in with clean credentials. If it works for the new user, then the problem is with your configurations.

 

not sure if it automatically updated....but what I will do is tonight take the computer and try to replicate the problems....

its a laptop we use for barney, baby ein and blues clues for my son...
ahaha

 

I'm guessing it's a result of an update to the media codecs. I know videos in Jaunty would always freeze on me until I installed a certain update. Have you tried using VLC or something else to play the movies?

Cheers...

 

What do you mean, "Welcome to the site"? I've been here for years. And yes, learning, helping people or asking for help is the purpose of reading and posting here. May I ask what the point if your post is?

 

You might want to look for a package called "ubuntu restricted extras" and purge/reinstall it now that the update has gone through. My guess is the way that Mint is doing things is somehow colliding with the way ubuntu is doing things.

As others have said, Mplayer and VLC should have no problem playing dvds.

 

DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

that is the error that is being reported on this machine.

other than this "niggle", the mint OS is running great...

I really like it

 

The source seems encrypted, and canot be read. Are you trying to play an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss?

This is another error that comes up as well...

Hmmmmm

very interesting, looks like its blocking some dvds that are encoded.

 

thanks for the info john, I have linux on an older compaq notebook, and Im having problems running some of my son's dvds. I was not looking for opinions on mint, i chose it because of some reports on the net, and I am seriously looking at somehow setting it up as dual boot on my 2 systems....