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anemone42 07-02-2019 08:19 PM
DVD won't play
 
I have followed all the instructions I can find online, but my DVD still won't play.

Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

I get the message "DVD source is required to play the file but is not installed" in videos. VLC just won't start the movie.

Timothy Miller 07-02-2019 08:32 PM
Just to confirm, have you installed the libdvd-pkg already and followed the instructions from it to actually build the files?

frankbell 07-02-2019 08:32 PM
I found this at Ask Ubuntu: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1013...os-or-kaffeine

anemone42 07-02-2019 08:37 PM
Timothy, yes I did.

Frank, I ran that line in the terminal, yes.

anemone42 07-03-2019 11:51 AM
From my history:

Code:
  328  sudo apt install libdvd-pkg
  329  sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg
  330  echo 'deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/libdvdcss.list && echo 'deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/libdvdcss.list && wget -O - http://download.videolan.org/pub/deb...deolan-apt.asc | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 libdvdread4 libdvdnav4 libavcodec-extra-53 libavformat-extra-53 libavutil-extra-51 libpostproc-extra-52 libswscale-extra-2 ubuntu-restricted-extras gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly libdvd-pkg
  331  sudo apt install libdvdcss2 libdvdread4 libdvdnav4 ubuntu-restricted-extras

JJJCR 07-04-2019 02:54 AM
have you tried this link fro VLC website itself: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html

anemone42 07-04-2019 08:56 PM
I have installed VLC, yes.

anemone42 12-09-2019 02:17 PM
Is there some way to check everything was installed correctly?

Timothy Miller 12-09-2019 02:55 PM
If it hadn't installed correctly, it should have errored out. I can't personally be of much help because I don't have anything with an optical drive to test that the package(s) actually works...

frankbell 12-09-2019 07:31 PM
Is it DRM?

kilgoretrout 12-09-2019 08:52 PM
Quote:
Is it DRM?
If you can play other DVDs, i.e. just this one won't play, then a DRM problem is the most likely explanation. I've come across this several times. Some Disney DVDs won't play on anything I've tried in linux and will only play on windows media player on windows.


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