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Title: Not all DVDs will play
Post by: bermudalite on December 25, 2017, 03:39:03 PM
My old Dell laptop with LL 3.6 will play some DVDs but not others.  Not sure what's happening.
Usually when I put a DVD in the CD-Rom drive the VLC media player will pop right up.
When I put other DVDs in the CD-Rom it will spin and spin.  Then I get a message that there is "no medium in drive".
Can anyone advise?
Title: Re: Not all DVDs will play
Post by: Jerry on December 25, 2017, 10:13:10 PM
What is the output of:

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inxi -d
Title: Re: Not all DVDs will play
Post by: bermudalite on December 26, 2017, 10:41:01 AM
Drives:   HDD Total Size: 1250.3GB (17.3% used)
              ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST9250421ASG size: 250.1GB
              ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: BUP_Slim_BK size: 1000.2GB
              Optical: /dev/sr0 model: TSST DVD+-RW TS-U633A
              dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw
              Features: speed: 62x multisession: yes
              audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram
Title: Re: Not all DVDs will play
Post by: Jerry on December 26, 2017, 10:47:09 AM
Some of your DVDs might be regional. Try:

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sudo apt-get install regionset
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-switch-change-alter-dvd-region-code/
Title: Re: Not all DVDs will play
Post by: bermudalite on December 26, 2017, 10:58:26 AM
Well how about that.  It's working!
Thank you Jerry.
Title: Re: Not all DVDs will play
Post by: Jerry on December 26, 2017, 11:02:35 AM
This has already been added to 3.8

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Title: Re: Not all DVDs will play
Post by: bermudalite on December 26, 2017, 02:29:20 PM
You are the man, sir!
I'm looking forward to 3.8...and beyond.   ;D
Title: Re: Not all DVDs will play
Post by: Jerry on December 26, 2017, 09:45:52 PM
You're very welcome :)