While inserting a DVD (which plays well in a DVD player) into my laptop, a message appears, requesting me to install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
.
What is this? How can I solve this problem and watch my DVD?
While inserting a DVD (which plays well in a DVD player) into my laptop, a message appears, requesting me to install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
.
What is this? How can I solve this problem and watch my DVD?
The mentioned package
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
is a package containing codecs needed to decode and play DVD video content. Here is its description:It is not installed by default in Ubuntu, because it contains proprietary or non-freely licensed codecs. You may still use them legally, but the Ubuntu developers preferred to only ship open-source software with the default installation.
The following command typed in a terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T) should solve the problem:
Alternatively, click the red button below which will take you to a site that helps you installing the package through your Software Center.
However, I strongly recommend using the terminal, because the other method might lead to problems because the Software Center fails to display you the License Agreement.
If you want, you can probably also just install the requested gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad codec package only (not tested by me, I can't guarantee that this will work):