Play a DVD on Ubuntu10.04 +

By default, Ubuntu does not have software that can play commercial DVD movies, even if the software source does not exist. When a DVD cannot be played, the system prompts "anerroccurred: Couldnotreadfromresource ". You can use the following method to play a DVD on a later version than 10.04. (Totem-gstreamer can play the DVD by default, but there are some bugs) 1 install the libdvdread4sudoapt-geti

By default, Ubuntu does not have software that can play commercial DVD movies, even if the software source does not exist. When a DVD cannot be played, the following error occurs: "An error occurred: cocould not read from resource ". You can use the following method to play a DVD on a later version than 10.04. (Totem-gstreamer can play DVDs by default, but there are some bugs)

1 install libdvdread4

Sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

Note: If you have installed Ubuntu Restricted Extras before, this component is installed by default (sudo apt-get install Ubuntu-restricted-extras)

2. Install the playback DVD software.

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

After the installation is successful, re-launch the DVD and insert it. The default movie player of Ubuntu should be able to play the DVD and play the directory of the DVD. If you are still confused, try VLC.

Ubuntu official documentation: more on DVD playback