Ubuntu 12.04 DVD Playback

Overview

For some reason the encrypted library for playing back DVDs (libdvdcss) is not install as part of apt-get and therefore must be done manually.

Install

Download the library and install DVD library:
sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

Then run the install script for the decryption library:
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

Summary

Very easy to setup once you know how.

How to play encrypted DVDs on Ubuntu Linux 11.10, 12.04

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