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I have installed both vlc and libdvd-pkg on my Lenovo E555 ThinkPad. I have also run the command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg

In Ubuntu 15.10 that seemed to work for playing encrypted DVD's, but on my fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04, I just see this when I try and play a commercial DVD

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It works flawlessly playing a regular DVD with an MP4 file on it, the problem only seems to occur with commercial DVD's.

In some other answers to this similar question it was suggested to use

sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

and to then run

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

However this dose not work in this case since the install-css.sh file dose not exist in the /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4 directory.

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In some other cases it was pointed out that the region for playing DVD's must be set. In my case here in Eugene, OR, USA the region needs to be set to 1 in order to playback DVD's published for the US and Canada. From regionset I see my drive is set properly.

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I have now tried an external DVD player and it seems to work fine. This now makes me think that the issue is more of a driver issue.

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E550 laptop with an AMD A10 processor in it. From sudo lshw -C disk I get the following hardware info for my cdrom:

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Currently I have no clue as to where to go from here. Is this a driver issue, or something else?

Any suggestions on how I might be able to fix this?

Willoczy
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I just install Ubuntu 16.04, the file /install-css.sh doesn't exist,I use a file in a usr/share/doc/libdvdread4 from linux mint partition and copy it to the same folder in Ubuntu and It's work.

Maybe you can look for file in internte and paste the file in the folder of Ubuntu.

usr/share/doc/libdvdread4

And run the: sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

user258792
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I had exactly the same problems. The solution was 2 parts. Part 1 is to install the Quicktime drivers: -lib and -dvd [use synaptic for this], and to ensure the VLC install is complete and up to date. Part 2 is to ensure your dvd drive can process the blocks [my old dvd drive could not, so I bought a new one]. Now, all problems solved.

rob grune
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Now with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS being available at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ this seams to not be the issue that it once was for me. Besides, I've since move into the 21st century and don't use DVD's or CD's anymore and now run a dell E7470 now which has no internal player for Blueray, DVD's or CD's.

My resolve at the time was to just settled with the idea that my disk players drivers were not at the time easily available.

As it was for me in this case I threw this one on the back burner of the problem solving engine of life. Sometimes when a problem gets place on the back burner for too long the problem fails to remain relevant and thus just fades away from existence leaving nothing left to solve.

Willoczy
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