CD/DVD read/writing on the Asus Eee
alex August 19th, 2008
A few days ago I ordered myself this external USB powered CD/DVD for taking away with me so at least I’ll be able to watch films (and backup my data!) on my Asus Eee.
It arrived earlier today and I’ve just been having a play (if you can play with a DVD drive!), all appears to be working fine so far- I was unsure that the USB ports would have enough power for the drive, but fortunately they do 
The only slight problem I’ve found is that when playing a film I can’t get to the main menu screen for the DVD, so I can’t change the language/subtitles or get to the ‘extras’. Though I suspect this may be more to do with the Totem Movie Player than the drive itself - if anyone knows any different, or has a way around this, then please let me know!
Until then I’ll only be able to watch ‘The Bunker’ in directors commentary mode and ‘Shaun of the Dead’ dubbed in Russian.
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Hi Alex, probably worth trying out GXine or Mplayer, which will both give you full control over the DVD. It is worth installing these from the Medibuntu repository (http://www.medibuntu.org/). You might also need the libdvdcss2 package to play certain DVDs, although the use of this package is restricted in some jurisdictions.
Cheers Liam, I did some googling and found that Totem doesn’t yet handle the DVD menu (or not the version I’ve got anyway). VLC was another suggestion I’ve found, so I’ll look into that and the one’s you mention
Just to follow up, I ended up installing Totem-Xine (http://www.funnestra.org/ubuntu/hardy/#totem-xine) and all is good!