Tag Archive - Movies

Hot Tub Time Machine

March 6, 2010 in Fun with 0 Comments

I received some free movie passes via BrokeHipster from my friend Kate to go and see the movie screening of Hot Tub Time Machine on Thursday.

The movie I would described as the Hang Over meets Back to the Future II

DVD Playback for Ubuntu the Jaunty Jackalope

April 24, 2009 in Linux with 0 Comments

With appropriate codecs, DVD movies can be played in gxine, Totem movie player, VLC and kaffeine (for Kubuntu). I personally prefer the VLC player as it simply works, without having to do much configuration.

First, install the following library:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

This will install most of the codecs for multimedia (audio and video) playing.

The library package is not available in the Ubuntu repository, you have to use the libdvdread4 installer script.

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

This will retrieve and install the libdvdcss2. If it don’t work, download the deb installer at http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/deb/libdvdcss2_1.2.9-1_i386.deb and click to install it.

Install the xine library
sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg

Install VLC
sudo apt-get install vlc

Now you should be to watch DVD in your VLC player.

If you want to use Totem Mplayer, you have to install totem-xine rather than using the default totem-gstreamer.
sudo apt-get install totem-xine