Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Multimedia Player -VLC

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

Ubuntu 10.04 (i386, amd64), 10.10, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04 (i386, amd64)


Works for old releases that are no longer supported if you have repositories on Cd/Dvd or somewhere. So, anything from 9.04 onwards. The latest LTS, 10.04, and the radically different 11.04 also work this way.
  • Install the libdvdread4 package (no need to add third party repositories) via Synaptic or command line:
sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

  • Then open a terminal window and execute:
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

  • Rebooting may be necessary.
After this, VLC will automatically use it. Some programs may need recompilation.
If after doing all this, you still get messages about not being able to play DVDs, check that the DVD drive has a region set (see below).

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the above worked fine. VLC now can read the DVD


Kaffeine also works!


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