Enabling DVD playback on Ubuntu 14.04
Comments (0) I don’t really play DVDs on my PCs much anymore, but my brother have me the full boxed set of Freaks and Geeks (great show, cancelled too soon). Running on a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04, I popped in the DVD and was prompted by “Video Player” aka Totem to install some additional codecs. I obliged, but after the installation, the DVD still wouldn’t play. It turns out that because of legal issues, the libdvdcss2 library is no longer included in the Ubuntu repositories. However, the libdvdread4 package does provide a script to easily install it.
Once you have libdvdread4 installed, run following script:
# sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh |
Restart your video player and enjoy your DVD.
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