DVD Playback in Ubuntu 8.10
Through the time I have used ubuntu I have watched several movies and shows, but never from DVD’s. DVD’s can not be played on the ubuntu system without installing some libraries first. This is because of an encryption system used on many commercial DVD’s, Content Scrambling System. Support for this is not packaged with the standard Ubuntu install.
To get the DVD’s working there are 3 libraries that need installation: libdvdread3, libdvdnav4 and libdvdcss2. It may be needed to add multiverse and restricted drivers to the source list for this to work, I am not quite sure about this.
The libraries can be installed from the terminal:
sudo aptitude install libdvdnav4 libdvdread3 libdvdcss2
Thats all it needs to enable DVD support. But I recommend removing the standard totem movie player and installing VLC media player. To do this, enter the following lines in the terminal:
sudo aptitude remove –purge totem totem-gstreamer
sudo aptitude install vlc
Thats all it needs to get the Ubuntu system ready for DVD watching. Enjoy