Playing encrypted DVDs in Ubuntu
Posted by admin on December 19th, 2006 
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The CSS key sets are licensed to manufacturers who incorporate them into products such as DVD drives, DVD players and DVD movie releases.Most DVD players are equipped with a CSS Decryption module.
Installing libdvdcss2
First you need to install the libdvdread3 package using the following command
sudo apt-get install libdvdread3
Now download the libdvdcss2 library using the following command
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh
For Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) users use the following command
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
If you want to download libdvdcss2 library manually you can download from here
For AMD64 Users
First you need to install the following packages
sudo apt-get install debhelper build-essential fakeroot
Now download the libdvdcss2 library using the following command
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh
For Ubuntu Edgy Users use the following command
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
That’s it now Your DVD player should now play back encrypted DVDs.You can ope your Movie player from Applications > Sound & Video
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April 18th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
thanks
June 4th, 2007 at 3:36 am
I got an error when I tried this, and I ended up needing to install some libxine packages using adept…
June 28th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
I have Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty… However, in your instructions, the filepath is wrong. I had to use..
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
..instead. The examples folder was nonexistent.
July 9th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Thanks Mark Stowe, this command works on 7.04:
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
August 15th, 2007 at 1:59 am
Thanks Mark Stowe, the command does work on 7.04.
September 26th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Worked like a charm. Thanks for this article. For your information this was on Ubuntu 6.06
February 8th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Worked perfectly. THank you.
September 15th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Correction for the 64-Bit Instructions:
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.shshould be used on version 8.04 and probably higher.