Enable DVD Playback
Warning: It is illegal to circumvent DRM in many countries, including the United States. Proceed at your own risk.
By default, Trisquel is unable to play many DVDs because it lacks a library to bypass the CSS (Content Scrambling System) DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) algorithm that prevents access to encrypted DVDs. You need to install a simple free software library called libdvdcss, which bypasses the encryption, includes an API to access DVDs as a block device, and ignores region codes.
Installation
A simple way to install libdvdcss is to manually download its latest package from https://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ and then install it.
- Go to https://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ and download the right libdvdcss2_x.x.x-x_x.deb for your architecture.
- Move to your Download folder and install the package with gdebi like this:
cd ~/Downloads/ gdebi libdvdcss2_x.x.x-x_x.deb
Install livdvdcss using a repository
This section needs to be rewritten
First you need to add the VideoLAN Debian repository to your sources.
Simply execute the following command in the terminal to open the sources.list file in a text editor:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Use the arrow keys to move to the very bottom of this file
And simply append the following entries to the bottom of the file:
deb https://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /
deb-src https://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /
It should now look like this:
Now press Ctrl + O to save the document. When prompted about the "File Name to Write", just press enter to accept the default. And then Press Ctrl + X to exit.
Import the key:
wget -O - https://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/videolan-apt.asc | sudo apt-key add -
Now, update the repositories:
sudo apt-get update
And finally, install libdvdcss:
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2
Additional codecs
Users may also have to install the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly package to have DVD's play properly. This is unrelated to the CSS encryption on the disks.| Attachment | Size |
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