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Article #69Re: play DVD ?
From: yowie
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:33
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:33
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On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:16:39 -0500, Bruce wrote: > Received a DVD at Christmas titled "Yes Sir - Jack Nicholas And His > Historic 1986 Masters Win". > > It won't play on my TV and it's not the first time as I rented a DVD of > 'Planet of the Apes' and it wouldn't play either (although I got a > different message). > > I just tried to play it on my PC and it roots me to the Microsoft page > saying that I have to buy a 'fix' or upgrade to 'Windows 7' (from XP). You have cross posted to a Linux newsgroup. We aren't likely to be much help with Windows problems. > All my own DVD's play ok on the TV. > I just went into my Ubuntu partition and it plays there ok - but I've > had no sound in Ubuntu for some time. If you provide some details about your hardware, and version of Ubuntu we can likely help you get the sound working. Run this in a terminal to see if your sound hardware is detected: sudo lshw -C multimedia
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