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Hi Linuxers!! Building a new computer and the only problem I am having, is that I cannot make any music or video player work on it correctly. I have scoured the internet, and could not find same problem anywhere else. (similar, but not same)...
I have tried mandriva 2008.1 32 and 64 bit OS, and mandriva 2009 64 bit OS, all with same results. I tried kaffeine, xine,totem,kscd cd player, mplayer, etc. non of them will play a commercial dvd, or even an a audio cd. However, both dvd r/w drives are recognized and can transfer data from dvd to hdd. K3b recognizes both drives, and can successfuly burn media. I changed bios to every conceivable setup. I tried 3 different dvd drives (one ide) same problem..
I have made sure latest kernel 2.6.27, libdvdnav4, libdvdread4, win32 codecs, etc...
The setup is mobo= asus p5q pro, core two duo, 2gig ram, two 250g sata hdds, one samsung sata dvd r/w, one Lg sata dvd r/w.
I am trying to to stay with mandriva 2008.1 kde3x, as I dont like all the wiz bang stupid features on mandriva 2009/kde4....
any thoughts would be appreciated Tnx Steve!

I guess if I banged my head against the wall enough of times, the answer would eventually come!! Spent toooo many hours on this one...
Being I am using a 64 bit OS, I had found that i needed the file called "lib64dvdcss2" instead of "libdvdcss2" for decoding the encryption.
So it is now working with VLC, and Kaffeine. So thnx if anyone had pondered this, and I did think it might have been a hardware problem, as such it was posted under 'hardware'..Sorry , was software problem... Thanks Steve!

Try using Puupy Linux 4.1. It has low system requirements so any machine will play it. Use the GXine Player to directly play movies and songs. Works fairly well.