Getting DVDs to play in linux

After some brief research, I decided to use the Ogle DVD player because it supports menus.

I installed ogle and ogle-gui using apt-get:

sudo apt-get install ogle
sudo apt-get install ogle-gui

I installed libdvdcss2 from Medibuntu, following instructions from here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

First I added the Medibuntu packages to my package manager:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

Then I installed libdvdcss2 using apt-get:

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

And it worked! (after a reboot)

MPlayer also works for playing DVDs (after installing libdvdcss2) but doesnt support menus.


Note that before installing libdvdcss2, I was getting the following error when trying to play DVDs with Ogle:
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
ERROR[ogle_nav]: faild to read VIDEO_TS.IFO
DVDSetDVDRoot:: Root not set

This error was fixed after I installed libdvdcss2