How to play DVDs on Ubuntu

Many commercial DVDs are encrypted with a weak algorithm called Content Scrambling System (CSS).
You can enable playback of encrypted DVDs with MPlayer, xine and Totem-xine by installing libdvdcss2.

Follow these steps to play DVDs on your Ubuntu system.

Go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal to open the terminal window.

• Type the following command to install the codecs:
  sudo aptitude install libdvdnav4 libdvdplay0 libdvdread3 libdvdcss2
  
  
  

• Use totem-xine instead of the default totem-gstreamer.
  Remove totem-gstreamer by entering the following command:
  sudo aptitude remove --purge totem totem-gstreamer
  
  

• Install totem-xine.
  sudo aptitude install totem-xine
  
  

• To play the DVD, go to Applications > Sound & Video > Movie Player
  
  
  
• Now you can start playing DVDs on Ubuntu.
  

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