To get DVD playback working on Ubuntu, the libdvdcss library is required. This is easily installed and necessary to decode a DVD properly for playback.
Install this package to prepare for installation. This also allows automated updates to the library.
4.4 Sat Feb 29 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ sudo apt install libdvd-pkg |
Then run this command to install the actual library.
4.4 Sat Feb 29 jason@Yog-Sothoth 1: $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg |
This is all that is required to set up DVD playback on Ubuntu. Use MPV for DVD playback.
Just like this.
4.4 Sat Feb 29 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ mpv dvd:// Playing: dvd:// libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 6.0.0 libdvdnav: DVD Title: THE_CHASERS_WOE_VOL_2_DISC_2 libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: 35351b67 libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative): libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00c00000. Regions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 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 0x00000132 libdvdread: Elapsed time 1 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x0000164d libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00010ef9 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x0033faf3 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x0033fbe2 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Found 2 VTS's libdvdread: Elapsed time 1 [dvdnav] Selecting title 4. [dvdnav] DVDNAV, switched to title: 1 |
This is a very simple task and gets DVD playback working very quickly.