Playing a DVD
As mentioned earlier, Mint supports commercial DVD movies out of the box. The recommended application to use for DVD video is VLC. To play a DVD, insert it into your DVD drive and give it a little bit of time to spin up. Then, in VLC, click on the Media menu on the top–left side and then click on Open Disc. Finally, click on Play to begin playing the movie.
Once the movie starts playing, VLC is able to handle all the basic DVD controls you would expect it to. If you peruse the file menu, you'll see options to skip to the menu, skip to the next chapter, choose a specific chapter, and so on.
Note
Most DVDs can be played in Linux. However, every now and then, you may run into a DVD that won't play at all in Linux but may work fine in a ...
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