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Sunday, November 1, 2009

How to play video dvd in ubuntu 9.10 karmic Koala


Follows the steps below to play DVD in your ubuntu 9.10 karmic Koala

1. Become root
$ sudo su -
2. Add medibuntu repositories to your sources.list.
# wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/karmic.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Now add the GPG Key:
# apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update
3.Update your system.
# apt-get update
4. Now install the libdvdcss library.
# apt-get install libdvdcss2
# cd /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/
# ./install-css.sh

2 comments:

Stephen on November 11, 2009 3:52 AM said...

Brilliant information, just what I was looking for and works a treat.
Thanks everso. Steve

Tobias Baunbæk on December 13, 2009 8:36 PM said...

You do not need to do all this anymore.
All you need is two very small commands,
as seen here, http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2009/11/ubuntu-9-10-enabling-dvd-playback-support/

medibuntu is not necessary anymore

 

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