Unable to play certain DVDs

Hello:

Please refer this link for more info:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs

and more info on region setting.. Which you ll come across in the guide:

DVD players will often only play DVDs from their own regions and so sometimes this causes issues.

You can only change regions 4 or 5 times so do this carefully! Some will have the wrong region set, others wont have any set at all. Consult the chart:

1 North America (USA and Canada)
2 Europe, Middle East, South Africa and Japan
3 Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Korea
4 Latin America, Australia, New Zealand
5 Former Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine, etc.), rest of Africa, India
6 China

then install regionset:
sudo apt-get install regionset

then run regionset:
sudo regionset

Hit y then Enter to change the region, then enter the region your DVDs are from - but note, don't expect to change this often because, as I said, you only get 4 or 5 changes. Set it to the region you are from!

Hope it helps

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Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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