None of the DVDs can be read

It does not matter what kind of DVD I try to play on either my DVD-ROM or my DVD-R/RW I get the same error message from VLC media player.

I have tried all disc device options. This is the error message:

Playback failure:
DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/dvd'. Check the log for details.

1 Answer

Do you have all the codecs installed?

If not add the medibuntu repository. Open a terminal and paste the following

sudo -E wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list (lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

Then run

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

Otherwise it might be a hardware problem. Hopefully someone else can step in and assist. Good luck.