Ubuntu 13.04 Not displaying DVD Content

Question

I am new user for Ubuntu. I have updated my OS from Ubuntu 12.04 to (12.10 and now) 13.04. I have a DVD of movies, which works fine in Windows 7, and I am able play the movies, and can see the contents. But when I try that DVD in my Ubuntu, I am getting Blank "DVD-R disk" under device, and when I click on it, it just displays option to burn the disk, not displaying the content, I am not able to see the movies which are there in DVD. Help me resolve the issue

Solution

This is a complete reinstall:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/vlc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install w32codecs ubuntu-restricted-codecs 
sudo apt-get -y vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc
sudo apt-get -y install libdvdcss2 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4
sudo sh /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
sudo apt-get -y install regionset
sudo regionset
rm -R ~/.dvdcss/

Please read Linux Set DVD Region Code. You may also have to reboot...

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For your information, as explained on Wikipedia article about libdvdcss, Ubuntu does not provide libdvdcss to respect Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Comments

[Nageswaran]

I have tried everything what you have suggested, but still it shows me like "Blank DVD-R disk". when I click on it, the title something like "Data disc (12 Jul 13)".

[oHo]

I have again competed my answer, please redo all the steps. Please, check your DVD reader using others DVDs: maybe your DVD reader (driver) is not (yet) functional on Ubuntu 13.04...