This is not a duplicate of Why does DVD playback still not work after installing libdvdcss2? as the answers there are not valid for 16.04
I've reveiwed https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
and installed the libdvd-pkg with sudo apt-get install libdvd-pkg
I've checked that the region is set:
sudo regionset /dev/sr0
regionset version 0.1 -- reads/sets region code on DVD drives
Current Region Code settings:
RPC Phase: II
type: SET
vendor resets available: 4
user controlled changes resets available: 4
drive plays discs from region(s): 1, mask=0xFE
Would you like to change the region setting of your drive? [y/n]:n
I didn't change as it's set for:
Region 1: U.S., U.S. Territories, Canada, and Bermuda. which should be correct.
I double checked that the package is installed with
$ dpkg -l |grep dvd
ii dvd+rw-tools 7.1-11 amd64 DVD+-RW/R tools
ii dvdauthor 0.7.0-1.4 amd64 create DVD-Video file system
ii libdvd-pkg 1.4.0-1-1 all DVD-Video playing library - installer
ii libdvdnav4:amd64 5.0.3-1 amd64 DVD navigation library
ii libdvdread4:amd64 5.0.3-1 amd64 library for reading DVDs
I even went so far as to issue the command.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg
This package automates the process of launching downloads of the source files for libdvdcss2 from videolan.org, compiling │
│ them, and installing the binary packages (libdvdcss2 libdvdcss-dev). │
│ │
│ Please confirm whether you wish this to happen. │
│ │
│ Download, build, and install libdvdcss2/1.4.0-1? │
│ │
│ <Yes>
A picture would have been better above but you get the idea. Output was:
libdvd-pkg: Downloading orig source...
I: libdvdcss_1.4.0
/usr/bin/wget --tries=3 --timeout=40 --read-timeout=40 --continue -O libdvdcss_1.4.0.orig.tar.bz2 \
http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.4.0/libdvdcss-1.4.0.tar.bz2 \
|| /usr/bin/uscan --noconf --verbose --rename --destdir=/usr/src/libdvd-pkg --check-dirname-level=0 --force-download --download-current-version /usr/share/libdvd-pkg/debian
--2017-03-04 17:55:39-- http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.4.0/libdvdcss-1.4.0.tar.bz2
Resolving download.videolan.org (download.videolan.org)... 88.191.250.2, 2a01:e0d:1:3:58bf:fa02:c0de:5
Connecting to download.videolan.org (download.videolan.org)|88.191.250.2|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 364373 (356K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘libdvdcss_1.4.0.orig.tar.bz2’
libdvdcss_1.4.0.orig.tar.bz2 100%[==========================================================>] 355.83K 795KB/s in 0.4s
2017-03-04 17:55:40 (795 KB/s) - ‘libdvdcss_1.4.0.orig.tar.bz2’ saved [364373/364373]
libdvd-pkg: Checking orig.tar integrity...
/usr/src/libdvd-pkg/libdvdcss_1.4.0.orig.tar.bz2: OK
libdvd-pkg: Unpacking and configuring...
libdvd-pkg: Building the package... (it may take a while)
libdvd-pkg: Build log will be saved to /usr/src/libdvd-pkg/libdvdcss2_1.4.0-1~local_amd64.build
Current: = cap_chown,cap_dac_override,cap_dac_read_search,cap_fowner,cap_fsetid,cap_kill,cap_setgid,cap_setuid,cap_setpcap,cap_linux_immutable,cap_net_bind_service,cap_net_broadcast,cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw,cap_ipc_lock,cap_ipc_owner,cap_sys_module,cap_sys_rawio,cap_sys_chroot,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_sys_pacct,cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_boot,cap_sys_nice,cap_sys_resource,cap_sys_time,cap_sys_tty_config,cap_mknod,cap_lease,cap_audit_write,cap_audit_control,cap_setfcap,cap_mac_override,cap_mac_admin,cap_syslog,cap_wake_alarm,cap_block_suspend,37+ep
Bounding set =cap_chown,cap_dac_override,cap_fowner,cap_wake_alarm,cap_block_suspend,37
Securebits: 024/0x14/5'b10100
secure-noroot: no (unlocked)
secure-no-suid-fixup: yes (unlocked)
secure-keep-caps: yes (unlocked)
uid=0(root)
gid=0(root)
groups=0(root)
libdvd-pkg: Installing...
Selecting previously unselected package libdvdcss-dev:amd64.
(Reading database ... 387303 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libdvdcss-dev_1.4.0-1~local_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libdvdcss-dev:amd64 (1.4.0-1~local) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libdvdcss2:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../libdvdcss2_1.4.0-1~local_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libdvdcss2:amd64 (1.4.0-1~local) ...
Setting up libdvdcss2:amd64 (1.4.0-1~local) ...
Setting up libdvdcss-dev:amd64 (1.4.0-1~local) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu5) ...
me@64bitUbuntu:~$
Further details: System SettingsDetailsRemoveable Mediais set to Ask What to Do
The drive recognizes the insertion of the disk And the title shows up in Nautilus and totem but attempting to play in totem results in "Can't Read DVD" The same drive reads CD's flawlessly and the same DVD plays perfectly in another system. this machine was an upgrade from 14.04 but on 2 other systems that were installed fresh with 16.04 I have one that exhibits this problem and another that doesn't.
EDIT: I tried deleting ~/.dvdcss folder. No help although there were some keys stored there. and while the documentation here was informative no amount of playing with the environment variables for decryption resulted in success.
export DVDCSS_METHOD=title && totem dvd://You could also use libdvdcss in debug mode though for that a little easier with vlc. shown ubuntuforums.org/… – doug Mar 5 '17 at 1:22