Howto: Easily Setup DVD Playback in Ubuntu with 1 Click

Labels: , , Posted by defcon on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 4:40 PM

Here is the easiest way to get dvd playback in Ubuntu Hardy Heron!

Open the Terminal and paste these commands:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring apturl && sudo apt-get update
Click here to install DVD playback from your browser!
If the above does not work simply:
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

Now startup your favorite media player and it *should decrypt the dvd* :)

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Scott Wegner · 883 weeks ago

Note that for the apturl link to work, you must first enter the two lines above to add the Hardy Medibuntu repositories to your sources.list. If you're still using Gutsy or an older version of Ubuntu, simply replace "hardy" with your correct version in the above URL.
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Mark Preston · 883 weeks ago

Should apturl&& be apturl &&, with a space between?
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defcon 52p · 883 weeks ago

yes, i will fix that right now :) thanks mark
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Morgan · 870 weeks ago

When I entered first command into the terminal, I got this error: "Invalid Host Name" so I tried the alternative command and received a message that the package did not exist but has been referenced to so that mean the package no longer existed. I did find a libdvdcss2 package and downloaded it to the Archive Manager but can't get it to install. I get the error message that the package canoot be extracted as no file or directory exists. Any ideas??

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