MPlayer - An error occurred - Could not read from source

[Quackers]

My system is playing CD's fine but I just tried a DVD (non-BluRay) and I get that error!
I have googled about and though I already had the ubuntu-restricted-packages I didn't have all the gstreamer0.10plugins-bad installed (as seems to be the recommended fix). I now have them and MoviePlayer still gives the same error.
I also want BluRay's to be playable and I was investigating that when I thought I would check whether normal DVD's were still working (I'm not sure whether I've tried a DVD since I upgraded to MM).
Good job I did
The DVD mounts ok and appears on my desktop with the title.
Any assistance would be very nice Thanks

[dino99]

a quick search:

you need libbluray installed

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...BluRayAndHDDVD

http://stream-recorder.com/forum/pla...10-t4993.html?

maybe lxBDPlayer can help too

[Quackers]

Thanks for that dino99, but I'm struggling to get normal DVD's running at the moment
(I'd installed MakeMKV before I tried the normal DVD's, so I've made a start on BluRay stuff).

[Quackers]

I'm a bad boy
I forgot there is a Multimedia forum here. I've been there and run everything in the Sticky and now normal DVD's are working fine.
I should have remembered before asking silly questions.
Apologies.
I'm playing with MakeMKV and BluRays now
I'll be looking at your links dino

[Quackers]

Just as an update and for future readers I seem to have stumbled my way through to getting BluRay discs playing with Movie Player, via MakeMKV.

[treerink]

If you have, like me, with certain DVD's for Media Player (mplayer) the message:
An error occurred - Could not read from source
and similar for VLC, Then this solves it (in the Terminal):
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
and eventually before:
sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
if it is not present

(see e.g. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/inde...t-1137655.html)