After a recent update within karmic koala, I could then play all region 2 dvd's (the region my dvd player has been set to), but could not play region 1 dvd's.
Now everything is working perfectly, provided I open the dvd drive with the "eject cdrom" command.
However, I have not tried to "automatically" open movies from the menus. Instead I open VLC player, and choose the option Media/Open disc.
From the menu, where it says disc device, I have browsed and selected the mounted dvd - this automatically points to the mount point. Using that route to start playing dvd's is perfect, and not that time consuming.
After a recent update within karmic koala, I could then play all region 2 dvd's (the region my dvd player has been set to), but could not play region 1 dvd's.
I have now followed the instructions from https:/ /help.ubuntu. com/community/ RestrictedForma ts/PlayingDVDs about installing libdvdcss.
Now everything is working perfectly, provided I open the dvd drive with the "eject cdrom" command.
However, I have not tried to "automatically" open movies from the menus. Instead I open VLC player, and choose the option Media/Open disc.
From the menu, where it says disc device, I have browsed and selected the mounted dvd - this automatically points to the mount point. Using that route to start playing dvd's is perfect, and not that time consuming.