How do I play DVDs in Debian Jessie (i.e. libdvdcss)?

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How do I install libdvdcss in Debian Jessie?

It seems that http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ is warned against.

Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of each?

And why does it sometimes seem to be called libdvdcss and sometimes libdvdcss2?

John Lawrence Aspden · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-03 00:38:29Z

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Well, I decided to take a punt on installing it direct from VideoLAN

edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the line:

deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /

Then add their key:

wget -O - http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/videolan-apt.asc|sudo apt-key add -

Now update the system

sudo apt-get update

And install libdvdcss2

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

And suddenly all dvd players start working on all dvds. Cool!

answered Nov 3, 2014 at 0:38

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I'd suggest using https to download the key, and possibly with the repository (in which case you need the package apt-transport-https). Also, the signature on the packages cannot be checked because of wiki.debian.org/Teams/Apt/Sha1Removal.
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oldmud0 · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-03 19:26:54Z

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if you want to use debian repository you could simply add contrib packages like this in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib

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answered Aug 3, 2016 at 18:21

Akira

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Although it works (tested on stretch), it installs a LOT of dependencies (c++ compiler, perl libraries, etc.).
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