Project 16A: Installing Support for Encrypted DVDs
As I already mentioned, Ubuntu does not allow you to play encrypted DVDs from the start. For you to watch such DVDs (and that would be the vast majority of them), you need to install a whole bunch of stuff, most crucially, the package libdvdread4. Fortunately, if you installed the audio support files I mentioned in Chapter 14, you're halfway there. If you didn't install them or if you just want to double-check, start by running the Ubuntu Software Center, and then make sure you have those files and a few useful others installed. If anything is missing, install it. Here's what you need to have:
gst-plugins-base
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
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