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I'm very new to Ubuntu having just replaced a faulty Windows 7 on my Sony Viao. I now find that my DVD drive will not play commercial movie DVDs. I have loaded the recommended files. I can use home-made DVD-R no problem, but with the commercial DVDs, the drive makes a loud clicking noise and eventually stops without VLC opening. On a single layer movie disc, VLC reported a blank disc. Any ideas?

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You have tried more than one movie? Have you made sure all the DVD codecs are installed? Of course, the "loud clicking" tells me your dvd drive MAY be failing. Have you tried using an external DVD drive? – LinuxPCplus Jan 25 at 15:42
While an optical drive may produce sound in frequent seeking, clicking is an indication of a hardware failure. The disc may be bent and have become unstable. – gertvdijk Jan 25 at 16:32
Yea, kind of my thoughts too. Thats why I suggested testing with a different disc & a different drive. Thanks for confirming my own suspicions getdvdjk – LinuxPCplus Jan 25 at 16:34

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Because commercial dvd's are encrypted.

To be able to read commercial dvd's you need to install some codecs.

Open terminal and enter the following: sudo apt-get install libdvdread4 && sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

you may have to enter those commands separately, and you may have to reboot.

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Open a terminal and add the Medibuntu Repository with one long command:

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

After that install the libdvdcss2 package with sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2.

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