Comment 29 for bug 137527

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Timothy Arceri (t-fridey) wrote : Re: Totem should notify users about installing libdvdread3 and libdvdcss2 to read encrypted DVD

The original bug post was about making this problem easier to solve for beginners.

The message at this time was: "Error occured, unable to read from the resource"

It is now: "Could not read DVD. This may be because the DVD is encrypted and a DVD decryption library is not installed."

I think this is enough to close this bug as the user now has enough information to start googling a solution.

I don't think that telling the user to install libdvdcss2 is necessarily the right thing to do as it is not the only option they have, and also there is the legal issues surrounding it. Other options include buying a commercial DVD player from the Ubuntu store.