[Solved]Can't play encrypted DVDs in LM10 (Julia)

[deckard50]

Installed LM10 (Julia) on an ACER Aspire TimelineX 5820T. Hardware all works EXCEPT I can't play commercial (CSS encrypted) DVDs. Problem is not hardware - or with being able to mount the optical drive, as non-encrypted DVDs play w/no problem. Lots of posts on Ubuntu forums and other Linux forums (including this one) pointing to 2 packages that must be installed: a) libdvdcss2 and b) ubuntu-restricted-extras.

Both packages are already installed. Movie players being used are movie player and vlc player. Error message from Movie player is "Can't Read From Resource." Speculating that the movie players are not accessing the libdvdcss2 library.

Any help would be appreciated.

[cra1g321]

LM10 should play encypted dvds out-of-the-box (i think)

have you tried this -

Copy & paste -

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sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

into a terminal then hit Enter

then copy & paste -

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sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

then hit Enter

**Now restart your pc/laptop

This will download & install the thing used 4 decrypting the dvd, info taking from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs

[deckard50]

libdvdread4 was already installed. I removed it and then re-installed.

The second operation removed and re-installed libdvdcss2.

It makes no difference. Still can't read from the DVD.

Thanks for the tips, though.

[Midnighter]

Can't play ANY commercial DVDs at all? Or certain ones?

[deckard50]

EVERY commercial DVD will not play. Tried about a dozen.

EVERY non-encrypted DVD I have, plays just fine.

[Elisa]

Hmmm, there can be more reasons, however, make a test:

try to boot from CD like a Live version.
Then run it the usual way.
Also u can run it by terminal window so you will see some outputs there...

Then try again in classic boot, not live and run it just by terminal due the terminal output info...

Post both outputs then here.

[deckard50]

OK. Launched mplayer from terminal on both Live CD boot (actually from a pendrive) and normal boot from hard drive. Not quite sure if the following is what you are looking for.

terminal output from launching mplayer (Live CD boot):

mint@mint ~ $ mplayer dvd://EPATIENT
MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.5 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing dvd://EPATIENT.
The hostname option must be an integer: EPATIENT
Struct dvd, field hostname parsing error: EPATIENT
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
There are 1 titles on this DVD.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x0000012d
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x000024f8
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00002a55
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 1 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128.
number of audio channels on disk: 1.
subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en
subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: es
number of subtitles on disk: 2


Exiting... (End of file)
mint@mint ~ $

Terminal output from mplayer launch (hard drive boot - - what you called "Classic" boot):

errol@errol-Aspire-5820T ~ $ mplayer dvd://EPATIENT
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
The hostname option must be an integer: EPATIENT
Struct dvd, field hostname parsing error: EPATIENT
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x0000012d
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x000024f8
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00002a55
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 1 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
errol@errol-Aspire-5820T ~ $

[deckard50]

regionset was not installed. This fix is already posted on this forum on a different board:

viewtopic.php?f=91&t=3115&p=22972

Installing regionset and running it from terminal, setting the DVD region of the player to match the DVD region of the DVD fixed the problem.

Thanks all, for the help.

[Midnighter]

So, it's a new DVD drive, and never been used to play a movie?

[deckard50]

Yes. A brand new laptop. The only DVDs I had played on it, were non-encrypted with the region encoding removed. I assumed the DVD drive would have been set to region 1.

My bad.

[Midnighter]

Ahhh, I see. Reasonable assumption there, and a mistake anyone could make. Glad you managed to resolve it.

[karen]

how did you do the region thing ?

[deckard50]

install regionset. Then run it. It has been since my last post since I did so, but I think it is self-explanatory when you run it. Run from the command line.