vlc and mplayer will not play a studio DVD: SOLVED

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:33 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> Everyone:
> 
> Immediately after sending a message about failure of vlc and mplayer to 
> play my studio-issue DVD's, I suddenly remembered what component I still 
> had not installed: libdvdcss, available from ATrpms and livna. After I 
> installed that package, my studio-issue DVD's will now play in vlc and 
> mplayer.
> 
> Totem remains recalcitrant. Once again: where do I get the required 
> plugins to play DVD's and MPG-encoded movies in totem?
I ditched totem a long time ago. I use xine and it just works. Ric

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