I've loaded everything suggested and almost all the multimedia apps available, and my DVD's will not play.  The device is found, /dev/sr0 as well as the required links to /dev/dvd (for some programs). Every lib...so has been found and installed.  The codecs are current.  Somethings missing still.  I removed and reloaded the addon's to MPlayer, Totem and several others. I added the Ubuntu Restricted (MP..., AVI etc) additions. I've removed and reloaded Totem, MPlayer, VLC and several others and reloaded the addon's and plugins again.   I verified that the links to the Devices are correct. I removed and reloaded the available codec's. Note: Those Videos I created on DVD from my BeOS System Play just fine. Further the digital copies play fine. It is only Original DVD's that are giving me fits. Windows Vista play them on an alternate boot drive.
My machine can't play encrypted DVDs on a fresh install.  How do I add this capability?  Another useful bit of information would be what programs are best for playing DVDs, once I'm able to do so.  See the .  Will I be able to play DVD movies from ?
Add a duplicate:0|1 search operator I often search for closed questions and sift through the ones that are not duplicates to see if any of them need to be killed. Technically, closure is the first step towards deletion and the only closed posts that are actually useful are duplicates (unless it's a crappy one).  For the rest, if the community hasn't bothered to reopen it after a while or if the OP has made no effort to edit their question, I delete it if it has no redeeming content. For example, the only closed posts seen on  are exact dupes.  But this does become tedious when there are several results for various close reasons with duplicates interspersed between them. I'd like to be able to search as:  closed:1 duplicate:0   so that it gives a list of questions closed as OT/NaRQ/NC/TL. This will be similar in behaviour to migrated:0|1.   This will also be useful for 10k+ users on all sites (2k+ in beta) in the network, especially SO, so that they can search for questions to spend their delete votes on— especially closed, non-dupe questions in the tag they specialize in. More often than not, I hesitate to vote on questions that are outside my area of interest (unless it is crappy). automatically apply special formatting to selected words in text Book about almost extinct warrior race with three castes: sen, kaa, ker The aliens in this book are an humanoid alien mercenary race, fighting for some other aliens, against humans?.   The Ker are the fighters, the sen are the wise ones, and the kaa the family/non-fighters.  Their clan gets almost wiped out because both their employers and humanity fear them, and the last survivors head towards their race' home planet, together with a human captive, who learns about their ways.  The other aliens are some blob-like aliens with little genetic variety.  Ring any bells? In the following sentence:     The city is populated by many people.   "many" can be replaced by something like "a great number of" (let us leave the perceived differences between the meanings of these two modifiers out of discussion):     The city is populated by a great number of people.   I understand that this replacement does not change the object "populating the city" from the original "people" to a "number", but rather shows the ability of expressions in the form "[numeral] of" to provide information about the quantity of nouns they modify.  Is this ability due to some special qualities of nouns such as "number", "quantity", "fraction", &amp;c., or is it just one usage of the preposition "of"? What is Change Detection and performing such analysis with open source tools? Why are the solutions of polynomial equations so unconstrained over the quaternions? An $n$th-degree polynomial has at most $n$ distinct zeroes in the complex numbers.  But it may have an uncountable set of zeroes in the quaternions.  For example, $x^2+1$ has two zeroes in $\mathbb C$, but in $\mathbb H$, ${\bf i}\cos x + {\bf j}\sin x$ is a distinct zero of this polynomial for every $x$ in $[0, 2\pi)$, and obviously there are many other zeroes.  What is it about $\mathbb H$ that makes its behavior in this regard to be so different from the behavior of $\mathbb R$ and $\mathbb C$?  Is it simply because $\mathbb H$ is four-dimensional rather than two-dimensional? Are there any theorems that say when a ring will behave like $\mathbb H$ and when it will behave like $\mathbb C$?   Do all polynomials behave like this in $\mathbb H$? Or is this one unusual? I may be visiting the US soon for both work (conference) and leisure (sight-seeing) but was wondering whether it is possible to pay a visit to Cuba, as I see that direct commercial flights have been restarted. From what I can tell, it is still not permitted for US citizens to travel to Cuba as tourists (from the ).  What is the legal status of European citizens - would it be permitted for me to travel as a tourist from, say, Florida to Cuba on a commercial flight? Would this cause problems for me on my return to the US?  I understand that the question has been asked before () but the situation has changed and I believe it warrants asking again. I am trying to use a file repository for updating linux/ubuntu on a non-connected machine. The architecture for this machine (uname -a):  x86_64 GNU/Linux   The results of dpkg --printarchitecture are:  amd64   It is a Trusty Tahr amd64 machine, and it specifically says this, for example, in the aptitude sources.list file. Also, the "About this Computer" in ubuntu specifically says the machine is 64-bit. So, I installed the amd64 packages on the machine. However, when I try to do apt-get update, I get errors such as:  W: Failed to fetch file:/var/spool/apt-mirror-trusty/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages  File not found   So, in other words, even though it is a 64-bit machine, apt is inexplicably trying to read i386 packages. Why is it doing this and how can I make it use the 64-bit packages?  Note that there is nothing in sources.list that specifies i386.  The only uncommented line in the sources.list file is:  deb file:///var/spool/apt-mirror-trusty/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main restricted universe multiverse What else do I need to produce two dots above o? Multi-window: prevent the out-of-focus app from pausing? Why can't you say don't instead of won't? Our textbook says,     A: "I have to go shopping this afternoon."   B: "Don't forget the bread."   A: "No, I won't."   About the last sentence, why can't you say "No, I don't."?  i.e. Why is "No, I don't." not acceptable in this case: I can't change materials I was making a scene in blender and I wanted to change the texture from "Material_1" to "Material_2". It lets me change it but when I go to rendered view the part looks the same. can someone please help me Does entanglement not immediately contradict the theory of special relativity? Does entanglement not immediately contradict the theory of special relativity? Why are people still so convinced nothing can travel faster than light when we are perfectly aware of something that does? Bake Simple Deform animation into mesh for Unity3D export? I'm trying to use a .blend file with a keyframe animation on the angle of a Simple Deform modifier in Unity3D. Unity3D however does not know how to handle modifiers and hence cannot play the animation.  How can I bake/save the animation to the .blend file so that Unity3D can play it? Is there a word for a comment which makes no sense or adds nothing to the current discussion? Can a set be neither open nor closed? An example would do. I cant think of any.   Thanks in advance! How long does the Truffle take to move in after building the mushroom biome? How was Nearly Headless Nick unpetrified? LM393 voltage comparator is not working What word means what many people think 'ironic' means?