Install libdvdcss2 from the Medibuntu repository.
No change, same problem: green macroblocks. But thanks anyway for the suggestion.
Have you tried this yourself and has it worked for you? Are you able to play all of your DVD collection on Ubuntu 10.04/10.10/10.x with VLC successfully?
Why would some DVDs play and some not? Surely they are all the same standard?
Output during the install process says no updates performed, which I think would mean that libdvdcss2 is already installed.
I went here
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
I did the following, as instructed:
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
Once this was done, the instructions said I could then do:
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2
No change on problem, problem is still there, frozen green macroblocks. Install showed no updates - latest version of libdvdcss2 already installed.
I also tried:
"If you wish to install just libdvdcss2, you can first download the individual package and then install the package.
i386:
wget -c
http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free ... 4_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_i386.deb
"
Only thing I can think of is that there are different builds of libdvdcss2 - is this possible?
If so then perhaps if I can find a way to remove the libdvdcss2 already installed then I can re-run these commands to install the correct libdvdcss2
Again no change on problem. Still there.