Re: DVDs won't open

I demand that Alex Webster may or may not have written...

> I have recently loaded Ubuntu 8.04, and wanted the capability to select
> sections of a DVD.  It looked like gxine was the answer, so I used the
> Synaptic Package Manager to download the application. Ubuntu instructs us
> to then set our Home Folder preferences for DVDs to gxine.  However, that
> choice is not available in the preferences menu.

Er, "Home Folder preferences"? Reference?

> In addition, when I try to play a DVD I get the following error message:
> The xine engine failed to start.

And the rest of the text...? That one line is useless on its own. And there
should be another error box hidden underneath.

> I am fresh from a Windows environment, and don't know where to go from 
> here.  Would appreciate any ideas.

Supplying insufficient information isn't the best of starts ;-)

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