How do I play DVDs in Debian Jessie (i.e. libdvdcss)?

Question

How do I install libdvdcss in Debian Jessie?

It seems that http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ is warned against.

https://wiki.debian.org/CDDVD lists three methods.

Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of each?

And why does it sometimes seem to be called libdvdcss and sometimes libdvdcss2?

Solution

Well, I decided to take a punt on installing it direct from VideoLAN

edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the line:

deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /

Then add their key:

wget -O - http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/videolan-apt.asc|sudo apt-key add -

Now update the system

sudo apt-get update

And install libdvdcss2

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

And suddenly all dvd players start working on all dvds. Cool!

Comments

[a3nm]

I'd suggest using https to download the key, and possibly with the repository (in which case you need the package apt-transport-https). Also, the signature on the packages cannot be checked because of wiki.debian.org/Teams/Apt/Sha1Removal.

[Futal]

Although it works (tested on stretch), it installs a LOT of dependencies (c++ compiler, perl libraries, etc.).