dvd movie not working

Question

I have ubuntu 12.10 and I can't play dvd movies. I tried every kmplayer vlc gnomeVLC could not read the file (Input/output error).

File reading failed:
VLC could not read the file (Input/output error).
File reading failed:
VLC could not read the file (Input/output error).
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///media/ahsidddiqui/Ubuntu%20OEM%2012.10%20amd64%20UALinux/'. Check the log for details.
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///media/ahsidddiqui/Ubuntu%20OEM%2012.10%20amd64%20UALinux/'. Check the log for details.

Solution 1

This might be caused by not having the correct codecs installed. To be able to play DVDs on Ubuntu, there are a few things you need to do first:

1. Install ubuntu-restricted-extras, either through the software center or the terminal using the following command: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
2. Install libdvdcss using the following command in the terminal: sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

You can read more about playing DVDs on the Community Help Wiki

Solution 2

For Ubuntu 16.04 i needed to do some more. I needed to install libdvdread4 and libdvdcss The first one can be installed through apt. For the latter one the installation steps are written in detail in /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/README.css or here. After adding these two libs i was able to play original dvd`s on my laptop.

Comments

[ananaso]

Have any of the solutions below solved your issue?

[Connor Leech]

great answer. I could never play dvd and this solved it. dunno why there aren't more upvotes