Comments on: Play DVD on Linux Ubuntu

By: Sheju

Sheju — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:31:57 +0000

Install VLC Player, this will solve your problem. it plays DVD , CD, MP3 almost all the video and audio format.

Hope it helps.

By: Adrian Peirson

Adrian Peirson — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:23:24 +0000

OK, what happens if you are not online in Linux, coz you can’t get networking to work or don’t have internet access.

By: King

King — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:24:32 +0000

typo “you can do this *in two ways”

By: King

King — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:10:38 +0000

Hi Zeke Krahlin,

You can do this is two ways.
(i) Go to terminal–>sudo aptitude–> password–>a “/” will prompt you to search field, then search the required package and install!
(ii)Go to Add new application(Alt+F1–last in the first dropdown menu) and search for the required application and download

Both are easy to install, however, the second option is more user friendly and preferable for beginners.

By: Zeke Krahlin

Zeke Krahlin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:11:56 +0000

Well guess what…in spite of that error response, typing your second instruction:

/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

resulted in my distro finally playing DVD movies. Maybe the first instruction you provide is not necessary?

While waiting for your answer, I can finally enjoy watching again (as I once did in Windoze), my fabulous Futurama episodes.

By: Zeke Krahlin

Zeke Krahlin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:09:19 +0000

I am new to Ubuntu (using eeebunto-NBR 2.0), and discovered I couldn’t play DVD movies after setup and update. So I gladly followed your instructions, but all I got for my troubles was “Couldn’t find package totem-xine”. See the lines below, to assure yourself I typed the command exactly as you described:

zeke@zeke-bot:~$ sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3
[sudo] password for zeke:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package totem-xine