DVD playback under F8 fails - need troubleshooting help

[tom]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> 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.
>
Not so dumb. In fact, rather perceptive. In fact (me hangs head), correct.

Worse, I should have known to double check that. <sigh>