I’ve been quite preoccupied for one reason or another since updating to Ubuntu 10.10, so I hadn’t got around to viewing a movie – or as we call it here in Ireland, a film, on my computer, my only means of playing one. I’ve long been a fan of Fellini, and had bought a copy [...]
Enable Commercial DVD Playback in Ubuntu I hadn’t played a film/movie on my computer for some time – obviously since before upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10. So furrowed brows when my Dave Allen DVD (yes, you have to be a certain age to remember Dave Allen) just wouldn’t work. It’s funny how you forget to do [...]
I got myself a dvd of the Irish film Garage and after a long day sat back to enjoy it on my computer and to my surprise it didn’t work. All I got was a “Can’t read from source” error. I thought I’d all the codecs installed, but it seems it has something to do [...]