Comment 8 for bug 117240

'It doesn't help'? Actually I think that describing a solution that works well for me and pointing the user towards the documentation absolutely helps. And totem-xine is well enough supported that it is still listed as an option upstream ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/ ) and packaged as part of the main debian distribution.

Discussions about current Ubuntu policy isn't going to help this user. Not that it is relevant, but I agree that it would be good for the default media player to have full support for DVDs. For the moment this isn't the case. If you require more DVD functionality than gstreamer has then, as a user, you must install libdvdcss2 and use a different totem backend (xine) or a different media player. Both options are covered on the wiki page I linked to.