Home / ubuntu / Questions / 185587
Accepted
crenshaw-dev
Asked: 2012-09-09 11:39:38 +0800 CST

Why does DVD playback still not work after installing libdvdcss2?

  • 772

I have installed libdvdcss2, but I still get this error when trying to play DVDs:

enter image description here

libdvdread4 was installed by default (This is a new System76 Pangolin Performance). I ran the install-css.sh script, and it completed with no problems.

I can confirm that libdvdread4 and libdvdcss2 are installed:

mac9416@charlotte:~$ dpkg -l | grep dvdcss
ii  libdvdcss2                                 1.2.12-0.0medibuntu1                    Simple foundation for reading DVDs - runtime libraries
mac9416@charlotte:~$ dpkg -l | grep dvdread
ii  libdvdread4                                4.2.0-1ubuntu3                          library for reading DVDs
12.04

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The instructions on the Ubuntu Documentation site were quite right. As david6 pointed out, I simply needed to read further down the page and set the region code.

    The process:

    1. Install libdvdcss

    sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

    (libdvdread4 came installed with the laptop.)

    2. Set my region code

    After making sure the universe repositories were enabled:

    sudo apt-get install regionset

    Before setting my region code, I read the regionset documentation at /usr/share/doc/regionset/README.

    sudo regionset

    I set my region to 0, North America.

    3. Fix poor playback

    After setting my region code, playback was possible, but the video was very distorted. So I read further down the DVD playback page. Deleting ~/.dvdcss/ did the trick.

    rm -R ~/.dvdcss/

    Playback still isn't perfect... In Totem media player, the menu is slightly distorted, and in VLC I have to disable menus entirely. But once the video is rolling, everything works fine. Thank you January and david6 for your help!

    • 7

  2. This should work:

    sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
sudo sh /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
    • 5

  3. Try re-installing all DVD support:

    sudo apt-get -y install libdvdcss2 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
    • 2

  4. I had the exact same problem and it was just region set all the time I followed the steps on the following site which then got it working for me :) I still can't understand why I didn't have to use it on the last version of ubuntu but oh well at least it works and I know to look at it next time if I need to. Use the following link for steps... http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-switch-change-alter-dvd-region-code/

    • 0