DVD Player program

[Walter Tautz]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Matt Galvin wrote:

> On 8/13/05, Tim Holmes <tholmes at mcaschool.net> wrote:
> > One other question please folks -- I am looking for a program to watch
> > DVD movies on my Ubuntu machine-- any good recommendations
>
> I personally use totem. It comes installed with ubuntu by default and
> works really well. You will want to use the xine backend for totem
> which you can install like so:
>
> sudo apt-get install totem-xine
>
> In order to watch dvd's you will need to install libdvdcss2. You can
> get that here:
>
> http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/deb/libdvdcss2_1.2.9-1_i386.deb

I've been able to do without this program to play the dvds I have, then again
I only have "The Corporation" and a Sheryl Crow dvd greatest hits...so maybe
I'm lucky?