Can't play DVD movies

[Mika Suomalainen]

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On 17.06.2012 19:47, jimmckenzie at earthlink.net wrote:
> VLC gives me this message
> 
> Playback failure: DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd". Your
> input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL
> 'dvd:///dev/dvd'. Check the log for details. Playback failure: 
> DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd". Your input can't be
> opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/dvd'. Check the
> log for details. Playback failure: DVDRead could not open the disc
> "/dev/dvd". Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the
> MRL 'dvd:///dev/dvd'. Check the log for details.
> 
> I was trying to play Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The
> Ring. The basic dvd version, nothing fancy, not the Blu-Ray
> version.
> 
> I don't know what else to tell you.
> 
> Any/All help will be appreciated.
> 
> Thank You

Do you have libdvdcss2 installed? I think that it's required to show
most of commercial movies on Linux.

For more information, see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs

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