The VideoLAN Forums

windows 10 - commercial DVD's wont play. Here's what happens. Please help

https://youtu.be/MVL1HE1JgvU

I fixed it. I used latest version of revo uninstaller and completely uninstalled vlc and handbrake in aggressive mode - ran ccleaner, then rebooted - downloaded new vlc and new handbrake - and now it works fine. The first time I uninstalled both of them I just used the regular control panel windows uninstaller. I guess that left behind some corruption somewhere that Revo uninstaller must have gotten.

Another alternative way is install Handbrake Libdvdcss to rip DVD for playing on computer.

Another alternative way is install Handbrake Libdvdcss to rip DVD for playing on computer.

This, i do not get, as if VLC can play copy protected media then it the file comes with the media player, otherwise u won't not be able to play copy protected media right ?, why do u need separate libdvdcss ? can't Handbrake just use the one from VLC ?

Most commercial DVDs are encrypted by using a wide range of copy protection/encryption techs. To play encrypted DVD with VLC you must install libdvdread, libdvdnav, and libdvdcss which is the optional dependency for VLC to decode encrypted DVDs.
Step 1. Download the new libdvdread/libdvdnav/libdvdcss;
Step 2. Install the downloaded files (here we take libdvdcsss for Windows as an example):
* Open the libdvdcsss-y.y.y.tar.gz (y.y.y is version number )
* Find & enter the subdirectory libdvdcss-y.y.y
* Execute the command:
./configure
make
make install

Can you explain this bit for me more simply as I can't play commercial DVDs in VLC?

* Open the libdvdcsss-y.y.y.tar.gz (y.y.y is version number )
* Find & enter the subdirectory libdvdcss-y.y.y
* Execute the command:
./configure
make
make install