Description of problem: My (SATA) DVD-ROM drive does not play movie DVDs. Data DVDs work just fine. My DVD-ROM drive is a SAMSUNG SH-D163B and is connected to an MSI P6NGM-FIH motherboard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 How reproducible: insert any movie DVD Steps to Reproduce: 1. insert any movie DVD 2. try to play movie 3. Actual results: DVD is recognised and mounted, but DVD contents cannot be read. Dmesg indicated buffer I/O errors. Expected results: DVD movie plays. Additional info:
Created attachment 295792 [details] dmesg output
The therapeutic effect of submitting a bug report caused some enlightenment on my side: I was missing libdvdcss(!). I don't know why that causes I/O errors at the device level, but after installing libdvdcss & friends I was up and running... :-$