Question : Can't play DVD's in Fedora?

Hello, I have Fedora 13 and have no problems playing video files that I have on my hard drive, but when I attempt to play a DVD I'm running into trouble...

If I attempt to load a DVD using Media Player then it crashes and displays:

   'Warning: A crash in package totem-2.30.2-1.fc13 has been detected'.

And if I attempt to play it using VLC, then VLC just closes itself...

I can, however, access the disk (as if it were a folder) so there are no problems in actually reading the disks.

Any suggestions?

Thanks very much!

Answer : Can't play DVD's in Fedora?

Try connecting a different disk drive to the system.  If the system sees the other drive, then the problem is in the disk drive and not in the computer.

If the problem is found to be in the disk drive, check the drive select jumpers on the drive.  The drive should be set to "cable select" and attached to the last ("master") connector on the cable.  I have,however, seen a few older Maxtor drives that fail to respond when set to "cable select," but run successfully when set to "master."