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How can I play DVD movies?
I tried to watch a dvd on ubuntu 10.10 but with no success. I went to medibuntu to check that I have all the required repositaries. Everything was up to date. So what's wrong?
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I think it's a defective dvd because now I tried another one and it worked. When I opened movie player or vlc it just opened for a second and it closed again. – Daniel P Bartolo Dec 17 '10 at 19:48
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Have you installed libdvdcss? – dv3500ea Dec 17 '10 at 19:53
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yes I checked all the steps with Medibuntu (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu). – Daniel P Bartolo Dec 17 '10 at 19:58
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did you install ubuntu-restricted-extras ? – NES Dec 17 '10 at 20:11
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I recommend to use the VLC player (available from Ubuntu Software Center). In my opinion VLC has the most complete set of codecs.
Best wishes, Vincenzo
Vincenzo
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This is what I ran to get DVDs working correctly:
sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
sudo apt-get install vlc
I don't know for certain if the first 2 are necessary for VLC, but I was having problems viewing a DVD until I installed the infamous dvdread/dvd-css.
Stéphane
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I ran into the same problem. I installed VLC but in addition I also had to install libdvdcss. Now I can play any dvd I want using VLC.
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From you comments, I'd say the solution is to use a non-defective DVD. Is there a way you could get ahold of a different copy of the same DVD?
David Oneill
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Unfortunately no. Yes that would be the ideal solution to verify if the one I have is defective or not. – Daniel P Bartolo Dec 19 '10 at 04:38