Okay, now that I've added a user, I find that VLC will not recognize any DVDs that I put in. Plays fine as root.

I have the VLC version that includes restricted codecs.

Groups for "user" were added to include audio and video.

Where do I look or what is needed for me to change in order for "user" to watch DVDs?

What other groups is your user part of?

When creating a user, if you use the "up" arrow key when queried about other groups, you will be presented:

If this is not already the case for you, then that's all I've got for now.

cheers,

When I created new user, I did use the up arrow key and assigned those groups to the user.

This solved the audio problem I was having and read about in one of the forum posts, but doesn't solve the video.

Thanks for the input!!

Ok.

If you start vlc from a vt, are there any useful msgs?

cheers,

This is what I get when running terminal mode;

bash-4.2$ vlc
VLC media player 2.0.4 Twoflower (revision 2.0.3-289-g6e6100a)
[0x9c0a9e8] main demux error: corrupt module: /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/access/libdvdnav_plugin.so
[0x9b73ae8] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.

Then when I go to play the DVD this comes up;

[0xb1600960] main demux error: corrupt module: /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/access/libdvdnav_plugin.so
[0xb1600960] main demux error: corrupt module: /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/access/libdvdread_plugin.so
[0xb6e00618] main input error: open of `dvd:///dev/sr0' failed

You didn't mix x86 and x86_64 packages, did you?

Besides audio and video, my "user" belongs to cdrom and plugdev.

Use the "groups" command to see what groups a user belongs to:

#groups user
user : users audio video

Then run the "usermod" command with the -G option to change the groups to which a user belongs:

#usermod -G users,audio,video,cdrom,plugdev user

These are the groups that my user account has assigned:

I'm running a 32 bit system and software, and VLC is fine in root mode, but not user.