Gutsy DVD playback not working even after libdvdcss2 install
November 2, 2007 by tibor
DVDs wouldn’t play back not even after successfully installing libdvdcss2 from medibuntu repository. As it turns out you might also have to install regionset (sudo apt-get install regionset) and set your region to 1. After a reboot your DVDs should play fine now.
The way I found the solution was:
1. Initiated the VLC media player from command line: wxvlc
2. I started playback of DVD from the GUI interface and received the error in the command line: “libdvdnav: Suspected RCE Region Protection!!!”
3. I googled the error message and found this page from 2006: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-314380.html
4. Interestingly I never had to do this before. I currently have a Lenovo R61i Thinkpad.
