VLC Will Not Play DVD

[carbonbased]

VLC will not play my DVDs in the computer's DVD drive. It plays every video file I ask of it, but not the DVD in my drive. This puzzle's me. Under Windows XP I could always play any DVD on this same computer. Running Linux the DVDs won't play. I use the drive for every other form of CD & DVD disk function, but these movie disks will not play.

More interesting. Linux Mint plays them just fine, Ubuntu will not.

[xtophe]

Do you have installed libdvdcss ??

[carbonbased]

Apparently this was the problem. I'm new to Linux and didn't realise how much Ubuntu is missing when first installed.

Thanks for the reply.