libdvdcss2 install-cs.sh not completing on PowerPC Mac (or other achitectures besides x86)

Question

Did an install of Lubuntu 12.04 a few days ago, and managed to get libdvdcss2 installed - all good, then I mucked up the installation because I'm a noob, and could no longer install Libdvdcss2. So, decided to get latest 14.04 version and install on my iMac PPC G4 system, all good until I try to install libdvdcss2. This is what I did....

1. Installed OS (Lubunto 14.04 PowerPC 32bit) & updated
2. Rebooted
3. installed ubuntu-restricted-extras

4. ran /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh script which seemed to work, right up till the end, then got the following error:

   --2014-07-16 16:51:09--  http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/libdvdcss_1.2.13.orig.tar.gz
   Resolving download.videolan.org (download.videolan.org)... 88.191.250.9, 2a01:e0d:1:3:58bf:fa02:0:2
   Connecting to download.videolan.org (download.videolan.org)|88.191.250.9|:80... connected.
   HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
   2014-07-16 16:51:09 ERROR 404: Not Found.
   

So, to me it looks like the script is trying to download a specific file libdvdcss_1.2.13.orig.tar.gz, when I browse the source, it doesn't exist!

What does this mean? Is it a case that the VLC people have pulled the file, or is the script wrong?

Either way, UBUNTU & Lubuntu Noobs like me are not getting DVD playback! can someone here point me to the correct way for installing the codecs?

Many Thanks

Answer 1

For all architectures

Unfortunately the VideoLAN Project team only provides pre-built packages of libdvdcss2 for Intel x86 architectures (see below). Therefore for PowerPC, ARM and other architectures you must compile and build it yourself as described here:

1. Add the VideoLAN package repository to your repository list, add the repository key and update the repository index. In the commands below replace trusty with the name of your Ubuntu (or Debian) release (see the output of lsb_release -sc if you don't know). (Currently the most recent suppported release name is utopic. The old packages should still work for newer releases though.)

   printf '%s http://download.videolan.org/pub/ubuntu/trusty / #VideoLAN Project\n' deb deb-src | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.d/videolan-project.list
   wget -O - https://download.videolan.org/pub/ubuntu/videolan-apt.asc | sudo apt-key add -
   sudo apt-get update
   

   ^{(Source, modified for Ubuntu)}

2. Change to a directory where you have write privileges and want to compile and build the package, e. g.:

   cd /tmp
   

3. Install the build dependencies, download the package sources and compile them:

   sudo apt-get install build-essential
   sudo apt-get build-dep libdvdcss2
   apt-get source --compile libdvdcss2
   

4. If successful, the current directory should contain a few .deb files. Install the relevant one and you're done:

   sudo dpkg -i libdvdcss2_*_$(dpkg --print-architecture).deb
   

   Where * will be matched and substituted automatically by the just compiled version of libdvdcss2 (currently 1.2.13-0).

For PCs and Intel Macs

Instead of building the library yourself, you can install a pre-compiled and packaged version from the VideoLAN project:

1. Same as step 1 for all architecures (see above).
2. sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2