Unable to Play DVD's in Ubuntu 13.04

[Don Myers]

Many DVD's which played fine in 12.10 will not play in 13.04. An error windoe comes up saying the stream is in the wrong format. Medibuntu and libdvdcss2 are installed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 22 14:42:15 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-09 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130402.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[KarlRelton (karllinuxtest-relton)]

I have this problem too, but my totem depends on gstreamer1.0, not 0.10.

Could the problem be upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688803
apparently fixed, though I don't think the code has trickled into the ubuntu repos

[James Lewis (james-fsck)]

Verified in 13.04 fully updated as of 28 May...

[Ashwin (ashwinjmathew)]

Verified in 13.04 fully updated as of 1st June

[markuspp (pichon-diffusion)]

VLC reading error:
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
main error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called

module tree:
libvlc "main" (0x22ef108)
    interface" qt4" (0x252e0c8)
        generic "lua" (0x7ffde039e718)
    <and other interface>

[david6 (andrew-dowden)]

Verified in 13.04 (64-bit) fully updated as of 12th July.

[Don Myers (donmyers)]

With a fully updated updated 13.04 with gstreamer 0.10.13-5, DVD's still give the same error. Screenshot attached.

[Oliver Sauder (sao)]

I confirm that this error still exists on a fully updated 13.04 i386 system.

Same error. message here as Don Myers'.

[Shunsuke Akagi (shoon)]

I had the same problem but

http://askubuntu.com/questions/185587/why-does-dvd-playback-still-not-work-after-installing-libdvdcss2

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

fixed the problem of mine.

[Robin Hicks (hicksrobin42)]

I have libdvdread4 and all pertinent codecs installed on my fully updated 13.04 64bit system, but I still have the problem described in comment #'s 8 & 9.

[Misbach (matt-misbach)]

I can confirm what Robin Hicks is saying. I'm working with a fresh install of 13.04 I had libdvdread4 already installed. I ran the install-css script, and It does NOT work.

I had to use mplayer to play the dvd.

[Robin Hicks (hicksrobin42)]

Same problem now in 13.10. The last release that I had no dvd problems in was 12.04.