Totem Player Refuses to play any DVD's. VLC only plays some DVD's.

I don't know that CD but have you already tried to open it with gXine:

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install gxine gxineplugin

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this help you

      The terminal said that that was not a valid update. And I have that anyway. Anything else to try?

I would suggest you type the following commands:

  sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extra
  sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

and try to use Totem again.

       I already have libdvdread3, didn't you see that in my question? But thanks anyway.

"The terminal said that that was not a valid update. And I have that anyway. Anything else to try?"

Yes ok you already have gxine installed, but have you tried to open your cd with gxine...?

Thank you

Did I ask you to install libdvdread3? No.
Did you try my suggestion? Probably not.

Let me explain it to you.

When you installed the libdvdread3 package, it puts a script called "install-css.sh" into "/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/". Here's what it says at the top of this file:

        # 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

Maybe I'm just an idiot, but somehow I think it might be a good idea to run this script:

    sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

In some countries (such as the USA), it might be illegal to use the libdvdcss library. If you want to be sure about the legality of using the libdvdcss library, please consult your lawyer.

If you already have the libdvdcss library properly installed on your system, then you should have said so and I apologize for waisting your time.

      Still stuck, I already had it installed, I just did it through the GUI because I do not know how to use a UNIX command line. And to the one who said I should put a DVD while I have gxine, I said I tried to play a DVD and that it said it could not open the disc. But something odd happens. When I just stick a disc in Movie Player plays only the sound of just the movie, but I tell Movie Player to open the disc and it says it needs a plugin. Does that last part make any sense, I do not understand why that would happen. Oh well. Thanks for the help anyway. I will accept any other suggestions though.

 Whoops.

     I did run that command, nothing changed when I put a DVD in. And you can do it from the GUI if you go to the package manager. So please, do you have
anything else that might work?

Thanks Sébastien Corriveau, that solved my question.

         Thank you for your help Mr. Corriveau. I can now get VLC player to play DVD's but Totem still refuses to play DVD's. My mistake for not reading closely enough. But do you know why VLC can play DVD's but Totem player cannot? It does seem that the command you told me worked, but the last time I said I could not play a DVD I only tried using Totem Movie Player, not VLC.

        Sin Cere,

       Dirk James Limon

To change your default applications to open inserted media dvd or cdrom please refer to:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/18574

HTH

I tried this too and it worked for me!!!

I have read and tried but get errors
gzine tells me encoded disk and stops
xine tells me missing libdvdcss
vlc gives me same error
sudo: /ur/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh: command not found
john@john-laptop:~$ sudo/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
bash: sudo/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh: No such file or directory
john@john-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Translation-en_ZA
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Translation-en_ZA
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Translation-en_ZA
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages
Fetched 1B in 28s (0B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
john@john-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install gzine gzineplugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package gzine
john@john-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extra
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ubuntu-restricted-extra
john@john-laptop:~$ sudo/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
bash: sudo/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh: No such file or directory
john@john-laptop:~$
thanks
John

Thanks I managed to solve the problem by using cut and paste I cut the cmd sudo/usr/share........
from yr response to question and pasted it to my konsole this then activated and installed missing libdvdcss
WHY wouldn't it do so when I typed it in normally? I just kept getting 'no such ile or directory'????

thanks
John

the first time you typed:

sudo /ur/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

the second time you typed:

sudo/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

you needed to type:

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

(you mistyped /usr and you didnt put a space between the file location and the sudo command)

hi!
i got the same problem on my box.
but running the script didn't work:
http://ubuntuusers.de/paste/221590/
any ideas?

ps: debhelper and fakeroot are installed.

I'm having this same problem. Running "sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh" gets me "sudo: /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh: command not found".

I have the same error that Donnie Love is experiencing. "Command not found" with every variation of the command. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Okeywon

@okeywon and other to get help please made your own fresh question from here:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

try sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

I am using the latest updated Ubuntu version of ubuntu with totem installed... I am getting messages saying I need Codecs installed... I can't believe that this hasn't been corrected in 2010. I did all that command line garbage and still no luck.

@Robert Lucas please made your own new question...