Ubuntu 13.04 Not displaying DVD Content

Question

I am new user for Ubuntu. I have updated my OS from Ubuntu 12.04 to (12.10 and now) 13.04. I have a DVD of movies, which works fine in Windows 7, and I am able play the movies, and can see the contents. But when I try that DVD in my Ubuntu, I am getting Blank "DVD-R disk" under device, and when I click on it, it just displays option to burn the disk, not displaying the content, I am not able to see the movies which are there in DVD. Help me resolve the issue

Answer 1

This is a complete reinstall:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/vlc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install w32codecs ubuntu-restricted-codecs 
sudo apt-get -y vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc
sudo apt-get -y install libdvdcss2 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4
sudo sh /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
sudo apt-get -y install regionset
sudo regionset
rm -R ~/.dvdcss/

Please read Linux Set DVD Region Code. You may also have to reboot...

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For your information, as explained on Wikipedia article about libdvdcss, Ubuntu does not provide libdvdcss to respect Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Answer 2

Here's a 'quirk' that may still exist so I'm putting it out here even though it's not directly germane to more recent 64 bit Linux distros. My 32 bit Debian 8 distro on a Toshiba Satellite laptop requires I use the right-click Eject function on the previously inserted disk in order to recognize the file structure of a newly inserted video disk, but oddly, not software disks such as Plop (disk based USB/media bootloader for computers whose bios doesn't recognize bootable usb sticks on startup).

Hope this helps someone. Took me some time to figure it out.

Answer 3

This is what worked for me:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libxine1-ffmpeg gxine mencoder libdvdread4 totem-mozilla icedax tagtool easytag id3tool lame nautilus-script-audio-convert libmad0 mpg321

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

sources: http://www.itworld.com/software/354185/enable-dvd-playback-and-install-multimedia-codecs-ubuntu-1304

http://www.noobslab.com/2013/04/tweaksthings-to-do-after-install-of.html

Answer 4

I have the same blank disk problem on self burned data dvd disks, but noticed, that I can see the files in it if remounting manually, by doing:

umount /dev/sr0
sudo mount /dev/sr0 /home/krister/disk

Afterwards Ubuntu automatic mounting works too for this dvd only, but I haven't checked if this retains over reboot.

• Could you guys fix this, please?