Hardy: only root can play DVDs

[Avi Schwartz]

If anyone cares to know what was the problem: looks like the css cache
got corrupted for my user account.  Once I deleted the .dvdcss from my
home directory, DVD playback returned to normal.

Avi

Avi Schwartz wrote:
> Something happened today, I am not sure what, and now only root can
> playback DVD movies on my laptop.  This is true with every program I
> tried.  If I try to play a DVD back as a regular user with xine
> --verbose dvd://1 I see the following error:
>
> ---------------------- (ERROR) ----------------------
> The source seems encrypted, and can't be read.
> Your DVD is probably crypted. According to your country laws, you can or
> can't install/use libdvdcss to be able to read this disc, which you
> bought. (Media stream scrambled/encrypted)
> ------------------ (END OF ERROR) -------------------
>
> This is strange since (1) libdvdcss2 is installed and (2) root can
> playback properly.
>