Dvd playback in Linux

[ivtec]

Hi guys: today i learned one more thing that i did not know,since i'm not much of a movie watcher,and never tried to watch movies on my Pc and rarely watch on my Home system center,but today i had this dvd cd around and put it in the tray and pulled the VLC but error no video at all,and said for myself what the heck maybe my dvd player is too old or dvds wont play in Xubuntu or Linux!then i started to seach the web, that's why i say Google is your friend and it is._ and came across this site and now i can watch dvds in Linux,hope this helps anybody here.

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-lin...-dvds-gnulinux

 

[ivtec]

Hi guys: today i learned one more thing that i did not know,since i'm not much of a movie watcher,and never tried to watch movies on my Pc and rarely watch on my Home system center,but today i had this dvd cd around and put it in the tray and pulled the VLC but error no video at all,and said for myself what the heck maybe my dvd player is too old or dvds wont play in Xubuntu or Linux!then i started to seach the web, that's why i say Google is your friend and it is._ and came across this site and now i can watch dvds in Linux,hope this helps anybody here.

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-lin...-dvds-gnulinux

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/playing-digitally-restricted-dvds-gnulinux

 

[salvage-this]

Yeah it sucks that you need a workaround for it to work. Just in case you haven't downloaded all of the extra packs for the restricted formats run this in the terminal

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-restricetd-extras

that command and the dvd one that you already did should have most incompatibilities out of the way.

 

[ivtec]

Yeah it sucks that you need a workaround for it to work. Just in case you haven't downloaded all of the extra packs for the restricted formats run this in the terminal

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-restricetd-extras

that command and the dvd one that you already did should have most incompatibilities out of the way.

Thanks salvage-this; i already have the restricted-extras

 

[DMGrier]

The work around is in place to protect the distribution, it is illegal for them to provide proprietary codecs without paying for the rights, thus the work around puts the legal obligation in the hands of the user.

Thanks for posting a guide to this ivtec