DVD's not playing in Ubuntu 10.10

[colkey]

Hello
I am trying to get some DVD's to play in Ubuntu 10.10 but whenever i try to play them i get an error message saying "Could not read from resource".
I am pretty new to Linux and Ubuntu
Thank you in advance!
Colkey

[slooksterpsv]

Click Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal, a purple window should appear, run the following command (you can copy then edit paste in Terminal):

gksudo apt-get install libdvdread4 && gksudo sh /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

After you paste that in, press Enter. It'll prompt you for your password and install the necessary components.
After that's done, close down your media players open and test! =D

[colkey]

thanks
that seems to have improved the situation but now it asks me to install a plugin but when i click search for required plugin, the search returns no results. The plugin is called dvd source

[slooksterpsv]

Have you installed the: ubuntu-restricted-extras ? You can find it in Software Center. If not install that.

[colkey]

Yes

[Yellow Pasque]

Look in Synaptic and make sure that libdvdcss2 and libdvdnav4 package are actually installed.

[SGT Pete]

Click Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal, a purple window should appear, run the following command (you can copy then edit paste in Terminal):

gksudo apt-get install libdvdread4 && gksudo sh /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

After you paste that in, press Enter. It'll prompt you for your password and install the necessary components.
After that's done, close down your media players open and test! =D

This solved my problem, my DVD is playing with VLC just fine now.

Thanks!

[grabledj]

Worked great - thanks for the information!!