Movies (Hard Media) and Linux = Fail?

**SeijiSensei** · November 24th, 2014

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...ts/PlayingDVDs

**Dragonbite** · November 25th, 2014

Did you try the instructions here? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...ts/PlayingDVDs?

I was trying to play a DVD on my desktop the other night, it didn't work, followed these instructions and viola! I spent the next couple hours watching the movie! This was on Ubuntu 12.04.

Otherwise, there is nothing wrong with using Fluendo.

**monkeybrain20122** · November 25th, 2014

+ 1 to libdvdcss2. I have not had any problem playing dvd with it. However, I think there is one brand of DVD drive which enforces DRM at the hardware level so with that you may be out of luck.

**monkeybrain20122** · November 25th, 2014

Originally Posted by leclerc65

Tell him to try LinuxMint (I recommend Mint 17.1 Mate, version containing codecs).

Yeah what magic is in Mint that you cannot get in Ubuntu with

Code:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

?

And what does Mate have to do with whether you can play multimedia?

**mc4man** · November 26th, 2014

Originally Posted by monkeybrain20122

However, I think there is one brand of DVD drive which enforces DRM at the hardware level so with that you may be out of luck.

You may be referring to Matshita drives (usually their laptop dvices.
They enforce region coding so one can't play dvd's from any region other than the one the drive is set to,

**leclerc65** · November 26th, 2014

Originally Posted by monkeybrain20122

Yeah what magic is in Mint that you cannot get in Ubuntu with

Code:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

?

And what does Mate have to do with whether you can play multimedia?

Nothing, but I like Mint Mate !

**Kurt_Alan** · December 23rd, 2014

I just installed Linux Mint, 17.1 MATE. After no configuration, my machine played "out of the box" a DVD movie I had bought in Viet Nam. I played it via the pre-installed VLC media player. I also noticed during my first update that Adobe Flash was installed.

So my buddy will be happy about this and now stay with Linux.

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