libdvdcss2 installed, but encrypted DVDs no longer play

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Lorin Pino wrote:
>> My DVD drive has stopped playing region encrypted DVDs - doesn't matter 
>> what player (MythTV, mplayer, xine...).  However, libdvdcss2 has always 
>> been installed (originally the PLF one, but I'm currently trying 
>> 1.2.9-2medibuntu1) and I'm not aware that anything else has changed 
>> since it was working.
>>
>> I'm almost thinking it's a sudden hardware problem, but is that even 
>> possible?  It plays non-encrypted content fine.  Does anyone have any 
>> ideas?  How would I troubleshoot this further?
>>   
> I am running the plf version 1.2.9-1 with no problems.  Have you tried 
> going back to that version to see if things work again with that 
> version?  I have no idea why it would quit working, but if that is the 
> only change you made, see if the previous version works.  If it doesn't, 
> then you know your problem is somewhere else.

1.2.9-1 is what I was running before too, and I still have the deb - 
I've switched it back, no change.  (I'm running Edgy, of course.) 
That's what makes me think "hardware", because unless I installed an 
update that I have forgotten about, I'm pretty sure nothing changed in 
between working and not working.  But has anyone heard of a DVD player 
developing a hardware fault that only stops encrypted content playing?

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Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com
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