My Inspiron 630m just doesn't want to play nice with the world, I suppose. No biggie, I've got my sound, widescreen external monitor, usb keyboard and mouse all working, so I can get this working.
The issue was a few fold:
- Totem Player (and mplayer) weren't able to access /dev/dvd
- /dev/dvd was a shortcut with "root root" permissions, that pointed to a device with "root cdrom" permissions... hmm... the learning from the audio issue!
- I added my user to the cdrom group, just to be sure
- Next, Totem read the obligatory warning from the DVD, then spouted an error!
- I researched the error and found that the DVD was likely encrypted and required the libdvdcss2 and w32codecs packages installed
- I tried "sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 w32codecs", but got an error saying the package wasn't available.. hmm
- I googled for a bit and found
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/12/04/libdvdcss2-and-w32codecs-for-ubuntu/ - But then... I got an error saying another package had a conflict. I had to remove mplayer and the reported package, but then I could install the packages successfully
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