Ubuntu 9.10 Movieplayer not playing DVD

[Calebs]

I am new to Ubuntu 9.10. I would like to play a DVD movie but don't know how. Right now I am unable to play my DVD with the movieplayer I have. Can you tell me how to play it?

[Aleksandra]

Which media player are you using? If you are using Totem then go for something else. It is not the best one that I personally would recommend. I would rather suggest you to go with VLC player. It is best player which is capable of playing any kind of files irrespective of the file format and platform on which it is installed.

[Dr. V]

Exactly go for VLC. It is the one I am using. But make sure your video file is located at ~/Desktop/movie. You can then run this file from terminal by going to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal and typing the code as follows:

vlc ~/Desktop/movie

[jesse]

Here is the code to let movieplayer play any DVD

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list \
 --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list &&
sudo apt-get -q update &&
sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring &&
sudo apt-get -q update

then

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

[Lemog]

$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse

The above code installs all the GStreamer library packages and thus you should be able to play any DVD in Totem, the default movie player on Ubuntu.