DVD playback under F8 fails - need troubleshooting help

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

tom wrote:
> 
> I am confused here. I have a fresh F8 install on a Celeron 1.8 based 
> system which declines to play dvds placed into the system dvd drive. The 
> livna repository is also installed by rpm, and provides the multimedia 
> software.  Running mplayer from the command line gives an error message 
> from libdvdread (think I got that spelled right) with an assertion 
> failure. gxine, xine, vlc, and (of course) Totem all fail to play also.
> 
> What irritates me is that a different machine with F8 runs the dvd 
> playback just fine.
> 
> Any bright ideas of where to start looking (systematically looking this 
> time).
> 
> Thanks for the assistance
> 
Dumb question - do you have libdvdplay and libdvdcss installed.

Mikkel
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