Cannot play DVD under ubuntu 7.10

[RS3York]

Hargo,

I had the same problem until about 10 minutes ago with drive by the same manufacturer on my Asus. It would play DVD's in a virtualized WinXP ontop of linux but not directly in openSUSE or Kubuntu!

Anyway to This is how I got it to work:
1) install the xine engine
2) Configure xine's config

You can do that 2 ways, either in an app or just using a text editor. I'll show both but you only need to do one.

A) Apps/GUI:

In Kaffeine
Go to to Settings->xine Engine Parameters
Select "Media" section
Select the "Expert Options" tab
Find an option labelled "CSS decryption method"
Change setting from "key" to "title".

In Xine (package xine-ui)
Go to Settings->Setup
Change your experience level to "Expert"
Select "Media" tab
Find an option labelled "CSS decryption method"
Change setting from "key" to "title".


B) Config File
1) Open ~/.xine/config with your editor of choice [kate/gedit/etc]
- there's no need to use root/sudo [the full path is /home/*your-user-name-here*/.xine/config]
2) Find the line "media.dvd.css_decryption_method"
3) Change from "key" to "title"
4) Save changes

If you are using gStreamer unfortunately I'm not sure what settings you will have to change to make things work. But at the least you can install the xine engine and use that to play your dvds (I'm pretty sure Totem supports the xine engine and if not you can use the xine-ui)

Let me know if this works for you.

[jfank]

Originally Posted by shad0w_walker Try opening a terminal and running this sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

I ran this code in my terminal, and it worked perfectly. I can now view DVD's on VLC. I get the full sound, and full video without any problems. It was a little scratchy at first, but then since I had my computer turned on for 2 weeks straight I restarted it, and there is no scratchyness in the DVD playback at all. Thank you for posting this code on here.

Although I have the problem with Totem where I have to install the "libdvdcss". When I installed it for VLC it didn't work with Totem. So you have any ideas on how to get it to work for Totem or what to do to get it to work correctly? Thank you for the help.

Now to those that are going to just use VLC the code up above should work perfectly for you. If there is any other problems where it doesn't work, just look around, and you whould be able to find the answer.

[madmaxo]

I had this problem and found the cause was my DVD player didn't have a region set. So run:

sudo apt-get install regionset

Then run regionset. If your region is set to 'mask=0xFF' it means no region is set. It then prompts you to change your region if you want. Region codes are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_reg..._and_countries