But since Medibuntu is no longer available, you will have to install this library from the VLC repository. It used to come by default with Medibuntu repository. Once you have it installed, install libdvdcss2. You can install VLC from Ubuntu Software Center or using the following command in terminal: sudo apt-get install vlc These are:įirst step (actually optional) is to get VLC media player. We need to install few codecs required specifically to play DVDs comfortably. If the previous steps didn’t work for you, use the steps mentioned here. Basically, it does almost the same thing as the previous section, manually. This part of the article was written a few years ago when libdvd-pkg didn’t exist. Install it using this command: sudo apt install libdvdread7 Alternate Method: Play DVD in Ubuntu (only use if you are using Ubuntu 14.04) Ubuntu 20.04 has libdvdread package available as libdvdread7. Troubleshoot: “libdvdread not available” error in Ubuntu 20.04 Once the process completes, reboot your system and plugin your DVD and you should find DVD playing in your Ubuntu system. In the process, you’ll be asked whether you want automatic updates for libdvdcss2. This will download the libdvdcss2 library from VLC repository. Once the libdvd-package installation finishes, use the command below to configure libdvd-package: It will notify that you need to configure the package using dpkg so that it installs the required dependencies.ĭon’t worry, it’s a simple step. Open a terminal and run the following command: sudo apt install libdvd-pkg Please make sure to enable it using this command: sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
This libdvd-pkg is available in the multiverse repository of Ubuntu. What we need to do here is to install the libdvd package that downloads and installs the required dependencies. Though I am focusing on Ubuntu here, these methods should also work on Linux Mint and other Ubuntu based distributions. In this quick tip, I’ll show you how to fix the issues with playing DVD or even encrypted DVD in Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04 and 16.04.
You are not alone who cannot play DVD in Ubuntu. Ubuntu won’t play DVD? Even after you installed all the codecs from Ubuntu Restricted Extra package? Welcome to the club.
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