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As stated in the title, I can't play any commercial DVD on my internal DVD-drive on my laptop, but everything works just fine for the same DVD played on an external (USB) DVD-drive. I've installed ubuntu-restricted-extras and used the usual script: sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

I might add that this problem is encountered on 3 different laptops, so it's not a physical problems on my machines (hopefully ;)).

Thanks to anyone who would have a solution... :)

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  • I've tried with Totem, VLC and even installed XBMC yesterday but this one completely crashed when I tried to play a DVD from the internal DVD drive... :/ – SNugues Aug 08 '14 at 05:29
  • I tried to run the script again, and deleted the ./dvdcss2 folder, but still with no success... – SNugues Aug 11 '14 at 17:13

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Well I found myself the answer by launching VLC from the terminal, that gave me:

main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called

Googling it, I found this: How to play DVDs after installing the recommended libraries?

I had to change the region code (though I never actually changed it...) to "2" (Europe) by installing regionset:

sudo apt-get install regionset

then

regionset /dev/sr0

Confirming I want to change the region code for this DVD-drive, and setting it to "2".

I guess that doesn't explain what the problem was due to, but anyway, it's working now :)

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