Encrypted DVDs and Kaffeine

So what's the deal with Kaffeine and libdvdcss2? Why won't they play nice together?

Here's the problem: some encrypted DVDs won't play in Kaffeine. The DVD starts to load, but at some point I get an error message saying that it's probably encrypted. It only seems to happen with some DVDs, though. Others work perfectly.

The standard fix would be to install libdvdcss. But I've already got the libdvdcss2 package from the PLF repository. Furthermore, the DVD plays in MPlayer, so apparently the CSS library does work. I guess something in Kaffeine or libxine isn't using libdvdcss2 properly, but I don't know what.

For the time being, I guess I'll just wait and see if this gets fixed in Edgy. I've got better things to do. It's not critical and at least it works in MPlayer (though the MPlayer UI does really suck).

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