DVD-Video doesn't play in Ubuntu VLC BUT DOES on Windows VLC

[rjamesd]

I have a DVD-Video "City Of God" that will not play on Ubuntu 10.04 with latest VLC, I get a frozen screen full of green blocks ("macroblocks" is technical term I believe.)

However on the same PC and DVD-drive booted into Windows 7, with VLC, the DVD plays perfectly.

Other DVD-Videos play OK on Ubuntu 10.04 with VLC but not the DVD-Video mentioned above.

I have updated packages/libraries to latest - i.e.:-

sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

and then:

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

Any solution to get this "City Of God" DVD-Video to play in Ubuntu 10.x with VLC?

[Michele]

Install libdvdcss2 from the Medibuntu repository.

[rjamesd]

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.