Can't play commercial DVDs on Lucid Pup 5.28 (Solved)
Posted: Sun 16 Dec 2012, 17:12
Running Lucid Pup 5.28 on Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop - Pentium III (Coppermine) processor, 512 GB RAM (max), 20 GB hard drive.
Last night, I tried to play a commercial DVD video on this box. The video just wouldn't start on Xine, so I loaded VLC. In VLC, it would start and run through the usual start-up ads but would just hang-up once the actual movie started and got past the opening credits. The computer was not locked up, I could close out of VLC and perform other functions, but retries would have the same results at the same point in the video. I DID also notice that the fan was running every time I tried this (computer setting flat on a table top) and was wondering about overheating issues, but again, the computer didn't lock up.
I then got out my much newer Compaq Presario dual core laptop which is currently loaded with Ubuntu 12.04. The first time I tried to load the video, I got a message that I was missing a restricted library. A quick Google search gave me a piece of code that I was able to copy and paste in the terminal and in just a few minutes, I had the video up and running on the Ubuntu box.
Today, I've been searching (both in this forum and on Google) for some line of code I could enter into my Puppy machine to make it work, but so far, no luck. The most I'm getting out of it is that most of the codecs should already be in place and commercial videos SHOULD play in Lucid 5.28. Anyone have any ideas?
Last night, I tried to play a commercial DVD video on this box. The video just wouldn't start on Xine, so I loaded VLC. In VLC, it would start and run through the usual start-up ads but would just hang-up once the actual movie started and got past the opening credits. The computer was not locked up, I could close out of VLC and perform other functions, but retries would have the same results at the same point in the video. I DID also notice that the fan was running every time I tried this (computer setting flat on a table top) and was wondering about overheating issues, but again, the computer didn't lock up.
I then got out my much newer Compaq Presario dual core laptop which is currently loaded with Ubuntu 12.04. The first time I tried to load the video, I got a message that I was missing a restricted library. A quick Google search gave me a piece of code that I was able to copy and paste in the terminal and in just a few minutes, I had the video up and running on the Ubuntu box.
Today, I've been searching (both in this forum and on Google) for some line of code I could enter into my Puppy machine to make it work, but so far, no luck. The most I'm getting out of it is that most of the codecs should already be in place and commercial videos SHOULD play in Lucid 5.28. Anyone have any ideas?