I've installed Kaffeine (and also have MPlayer and Dragon Player) and none of these will play DVDs on my PC. I've also installed the latest version of libdvdcss, so I don't think that's the problem.

Mandriva is nice enough to tell you when you don't have the appropriate Codecs installed and, whenever that message has popped up, I've installed the appropriate Codecs.

What happens is as follows: I pop a DVD into the drive and - irrespective of which application I choose to play it - the system either does nothing or displays only the first title page on the DVD. In the case of Kaffeine, I get a "Stopped" message in the upper left corner with a black screen.

This is almost enough to drive me back to PCLinuxOS and its lacking implementation of of KDE 4.3. At least it can play DVDs without issue.

But, fortunately, in most other respects, Mandriva 2010 is a first-class, polished distribution.

Can anyone help me with this?

Do you have libdvdread installed?

Yes, I have libdvdread4 installed.

Try VLC - I quickly found that this was the only player worth bothering with in 2010.

But it worked. Thanks for the help. I don't know why I didn't try VLC earlier, but I became fixated on getting the others to work.

For some reason, I don't get the title page of the DVD, but I can select individual chapters to play without a problem.

Happy New Year!