New disk drive installed, won't play dvd's?

Asked by titagula

I just yesterday installed a new Lite-ON 22x IDE DVD-RW burner Lightscribe Optical Drive, and it recognized cd's fine, and will let me play them via rhythmbox. When i put in a dvd however, (using "movieplayer") it won't let me play them, and it says "can not read from resource" if i browse through the folder that the disk has, and look at the videos on it, there are separate ones for things like the main menu, and the copyright warning, and things like that, and even the entire movie. When i click these, they play without audio, or say "can not read from resource" How can i play the DVD's normally? do i need to install new drivers, or a new player? Please help!

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Best Emre AYTAÇ (eaytac) said :
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May be you haven't had the codecs for playing dvd's. Try to install ubuntu-restricted-extras and libdvdcss package from medibuntu. Please try the following 3 commands. Hope this helps...

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

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

sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2

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titagula (titagula) said :
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Thank you!! I thought i might need codecs, but i couldn't find the right ones. I appreciate the help! :)

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titagula (titagula) said :
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Thanks Emre AYTAÇ, that solved my question.