DVD won't play

anemone42 · 07-02-2019, 08:19 PM

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.