How to enable DVD and other proprietary format playback in Ubuntu

NOTE: This is now very outdated and the information is outdated. Do not follow this tutorial.

This will let you play all those formats that your system won't read.

I will type out here: for DVD, the command is
"sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2"

For everything else:
"sudo apt-get install w32codecs" on a 32 bit processor, or
"sudo apt-get install w64codecs" on a 64 bit processor. If you don't know what type you have, there's a good chance it's 32 bit.

Remember, remove the quotes when you input those commands.

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[homestar92]

That is an option of course, but this also allows you to use programs like acidrip and other DVD Rippers. If you don't plan on doing that, you can totally use VLC. Actually, I'm going to add that to the description.

[Blitzerboy1408]

@newusername01 i use vlc and for some reason it keeps not playing my DVD's as it keeps getting an error, i tried reinstalling it but nuthin, it's why im lookin for another dvd player on youtube, VLC is excellent for Windows but not for me on ubuntu, hopefully i can find a DVD player :)

[newusername01]

Just one question... why not just install VLC? I know it's not gtk but it plays everything except for rm.