Problem playing DVD's

[Gavin77]

For reference, I've already got the following installed:

dpkg -l | grep libdvd
ii libdvdcss2
ii libdvdnav4:amd64
ii libdvdread4:amd64

Problem:
This is the first time since installing Trusty that I've tried to watch a DVD so I'm only just encountering this problem now for the first time. When trying to play a movie on DVD, after inserting the disc it locks up my system. I've even tried to play a disc that I watched previously when using Saucy but now won't play on Trusty.

I tried installing and running regionset but that won't work either, it just says can't read disc. So far I've tried 3 different DVD's in both Smplayer and VLC and none will play.

As a test I've downgraded both libdvdnav and libdvdread from the Saucy repo and I could get the movies to start but trying to skip through the video will crash them. I've spent the past 2 hours searching on Google for help but haven't found anything relevant, it's mostly people saying to install libdvdcss which is not my problem.

tl:dr DVD's worked fine on Saucy but they won't play on Trusty.

[Snowhog]

Do you have kubuntu-restricted-extras and kubuntu-restricted-addons installed?

[vinnywright]

how long have you had trusty on the box ? and how often do you update/upgrade the system ,,,,,,,,I ask as you state that downgrading the nav&read packages at least attempts to work.
I would do a

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

to get every thing up to date (should pull the nav&read back up)
+ how did you install the libdvdcss2 ,,,,,,,,,by running the /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh ?

VINNY

[Gavin77]

Do you have kubuntu-restricted-extras and kubuntu-restricted-addons installed?

Yes, that's one of the first thing I always install.

[Gavin77]

how long have you had trusty on the box ? and how often do you update/upgrade the system ,,,,,,,,I ask as you state that downgrading the nav&read packages at least attempts to work.
I would do a

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

to get every thing up to date (should pull the nav&read back up)
+ how did you install the libdvdcss2 ,,,,,,,,,by running the /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh ?

VINNY

I keep my system up to date, checking every day for updates.

I first installed libdvdcss2 by a deb file. I've already tried purging and installing via the install-css.sh script.

P.S. I've been using kubuntu for the past 8 years so I'm not a newbie

[vinnywright]

OK then I'm out of ideas then

P.S. I've been using kubuntu for the past 8 years so I'm not a newbie

yes but even us old timers (LOL) can forget a tidbit some times

you did use "dist-upgrade" right?

VINNY

[Snowhog]

Look at the content of /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh. sitert= needs to be pointing to videolan's site. If it isn't, correct it and re-run the script.

#!/bin/sh
# Shell script to install libdvdcss under Debian GNU Linux
# Many DVDs use css for encryption.  To play these discs, a special library 
# is needed to decode them, libdvdcss.  Due to legal problems, Debian and most
# Linux distibutions cannot distribute libdvdcss
# Use this shell script to install the libdvdcss under DEBIAN GNU/Linux
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Refer url for more info:
# Copyright info -  http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~dvd/
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)
# Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Addition of checking for current version.  Gene Cumm <gene.cumm@gmail.com>
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

set -e

if [ ! -w /etc/passwd ]; then
    echo "Super-user privileges are required.  Please run this with 'sudo'." >&2
    exit 1
fi

[COLOR=#ff0000][B]sitert=http://download.videolan.org/[/B][/COLOR]
site=${sitert}pub/debian/stable/
arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)

Also check to see that you have libavcodec-extra-53 installed.

This package contains the ffplay multimedia player, the ffserver streaming server and the Libav audio and video encoder. They support most existing file formats (AVI, MPEG, OGG, Matroska, ASF...) and encoding formats (MPEG, DivX, MPEG4, AC3, DV...).


This is the codec library from Libav (both encoding and decoding).


This package is an enhancement to the regular libavcodec library package. This package contains the following additional codecs.


• OpenCORE Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) Narrow-Band (Encoder/Decoder)
• OpenCORE Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) Wide-Band (Decoder)
• Android VisualOn AAC (Encoder)
• Android VisualOn Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) Wide-Band (Encoder)
• OpenCV filtering
• Dirac decoding support via libdirac
• MP3 encoding with liblame
• H.264 encoding via libx264
• MPEG4 Part 2 encoding via libxvidcore


Because this package links against libraries that are licensed under Apache License 2.0, the resulting binaries are distributed under the GPL version 3.

[Gavin77]

Looks like it's crisis averted, I've got it fixed

vinnywright's comment "how long have you had trusty on the box ?" got me thinking... I installed Trusty from one of the betas and just kept updating which usually is OK. Anyway I went and downloaded the latest 14.04.1 and reinstalled and it works now, phew