I'm trying to enable DVD playback in SUSE 10 OSS, so I found a magazine article online covering the topic. Their procedure more-or-less involved removing the crippled multimedia libraries, installing the fully-featured ones, and then installing libdvdcss (I hope nobody minds the legal issues) via an RPM. Everything went as planned until I actually attempted DVD playback via Kaffeine. Just as I place the DVD in the drive and Kaffeine starts, I get the message: "Error reading NAV packet." I've surfed around the web trying to find a solution, but all of the solutions I could locate involved installing libdvdcss, which I have already done. The only idea I have is that perhaps ANY DVD playback is only possible through the pay-version of SUSE, and that answer is kinda desperate. Any ideas?

If you search for "Suse" and "DVD" you will find countless threads on this messageboard with the solution.

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I just have to start Kaffeine as root... I hope I haven't made myself look too stupid on my first post...
Sorry guys...

It's nice that it works, but with a correct installation, root permissions should not be required to read DVD's. Maybe you have some configuration files of the crippled xine/kaffeine version in your homedirectory. I prefer mplayer anyway.

I have the same problem. I can play dvds fine as root, but not in my norman profile. How do I fix that?

I'm guessing it has something to do with the /fstab file, since it's probably about accessing the DVD drive.