[wellylug] Very new to Linux - have a few questions

[Daniel Pittman]

sweettea at vodafone.net.nz writes:

> I just recently (as in the last month) installed Ubuntu on my Dell
> laptop. As to be expected, I'm at the bottom of the learning curve and
> have some general questions (e.g. how to get my cd/dvd-rom to read
> dvds from the handycam, etc).

On that specific topic you may find this document helpful:

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

That includes details on how to configure your system to play back
encrypted DVD content, to use various Windows binary codecs to play back
content[1], how to get Java, and so forth.

I hope that helps.
	Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  These are all semi-legal or illegal, but are typical, and are not
     actively prosecuted. 
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