[SOLVED] Cannot play DVD's

[Mhawkins1]

I cannot find a dvd player for ubuntu that will play my netflix dvds. I've tried Movie Player, Mplayer, Ogle, and Windows media player under wine. I have no problem playing copied dvds but I can't play legitimate legal dvds

[kaibob]

Install totem-xine and libdvdcss2 from synaptic and you will be able to play the DVD's.

[Mhawkins1]

Install totem-xine and libdvdcss2 from synaptic and you will be able to play the DVD's.

I already have both of those installed. I reinstalled them and it still doesn't work.

[kaibob]

I don't know what is going on then. Totem-xine with libdvdcss2 works for me and is all that is required as confirmed by:

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

You may want to try the VLC media player, although if totem-xine doesn't work VLC may not either. Perhaps someone else has a suggestion that will help.

[Mhawkins1]

I don't know what is going on then. Totem-xine with libdvdcss2 works for me and is all that is required as confirmed by:

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

You may want to try the VLC media player, although if totem-xine doesn't work VLC may not either. Perhaps someone else has a suggestion that will help.

Could it be my DVD drive itself? It reads all CD's and DVD's but it just won't play any DVD that isn't copied. When I copy my DVD's maybe I'm removing something that allows them to play on my drive under Ubuntu because I didn't have this problem under Suse. Is this even possible? All of my copied DVD's are reigion free, but the DVD's I'm trying to play are Reigion 1 (North America) and they also worked under Microshaft Winblows Xplode (MS Win XP).

[djRobbieF]

At first glance it sounds to me that you don't have decryption installed for encrypted DVDs. Try this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=903573

[Mhawkins1]

At first glance it sounds to me that you don't have decryption installed for encrypted DVDs. Try this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=903573

I followed the directions. It still doesn't work with some DVD's. I get the error message 'An error occured cannot read from resource' but only with some DVD's others work. Must be the encryption. What can I do about this?

[Mhawkins1]

I don't know what is going on then. Totem-xine with libdvdcss2 works for me and is all that is required as confirmed by:

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

You may want to try the VLC media player, although if totem-xine doesn't work VLC may not either. Perhaps someone else has a suggestion that will help.

I tried these steps again and it's working now. Thanks!!!