Enable DVD Playback

Not that I play DVD's very often but is always good to be able to play DVD's and every time that I've tried they never seemed to work in Ubuntu. I actually always thought it was a bug in Ubuntu and I never bothered to look to much into it (lazy) and always double booted into Windows to play my DVD's as I always thought this was the quickest way to get things going without going for hours through comments on forums looking for the right answer for me.

Today I've seen this post in OMG! Ubuntu which brought new light to my clueless issues with the DVD playback.

Links of interest:

Medibuntu packages - http://packages.medibuntu.org/natty/index.html
Medibuntu Documentation - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu#Adding%20the%20Repositories

Transcoder - Video converter

Transcoder is a video converter for Linux using GTK+ as GUI toolkit and ffmpeg as backend.

It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

In current version:
A double click on a list item will show information about an input file.
FAAD is the default AAC decoder now.
There is a GOP size option.
3gp video format, h263 video codec, and AMR audio codec support for mobile phones.
A deinterlace option.
A subtitle codec option.
AMD-64 support.
New aspect ratio values.
Default bitrate options for video and audio streams
The transcoder will look for ffmpeg in /usr/bin and in /usr/local/bin if it is not found in the working directory.
The minimal version for GTK+ is 2.16.
A HQ x264 profile with mobile phones support.
Other small changes and bugfixes.