Playing DVDs

[newto]

I'm having trouble playing DVDs on my fresh Ubuntu install. The Movie Player just opens then crashes. I downloaded some codecs but it still behaves the same way. I downloaded VLC media player but that behaves the same way.

Also with Bittorent, which movie types should I be downloading? Example .wmv, .avi if I can't get DVDs to work?

[StOoZ]

in terminal:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras 

[namdung]

Is the issue with one particular DVD or all DVDs?
Are you able to play other movie/audio formats like avi, mpeg, mp3, wav etc?
Which version of Ubuntu?

Downloading movies if illegal should not be encouraged in this forum.

[newto]

Thanks but it isn't working, is it possible Ubuntu isn't recognizing them as DVDs? or is there something else I'm doing wrong?

[kansasnoob]

I'm having trouble playing DVDs on my fresh Ubuntu install. The Movie Player just opens then crashes. I downloaded some codecs but it still behaves the same way. I downloaded VLC media player but that behaves the same way.

Also with Bittorent, which movie types should I be downloading? Example .wmv, .avi if I can't get DVDs to work?

Where you say it "crashes" I'm not sure this will be of any help, but I always install libdvdcss2. I used to install the whole Medibuntu repo but now I just install the separate libdvdcss2 and w32codecs packages:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

[newto]

Is the issue with one particular DVD or all DVDs?
Are you able to play other movie/audio formats like avi, mpeg, mp3, wav etc?
Which version of Ubuntu?

Downloading movies if illegal should not be encouraged in this forum.

I just put in an Audio CD and it worked.

[newto]

Thanks all, I managed to get it working.

[theozzlives]

sudo apt-get install libdvdread3 libxine1-ffmpeg totem-xine build-essential debhelper fakeroot

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

[namdung]

Thanks all, I managed to get it working.

Glad to a see a happy Ubuntu user. Now pls mark the thread as SOLVED if you're satisfied.