Comment 36 for bug 137527

The "Desired solution" could stand much improvement. The text should be much shorter (62 words is far too much for an alert); the button labels should not start with "Yes" or "No"; and it's not clear what should happen during or after installation.

Most importantly, though, it would be asking a question to which people couldn't reasonably be expected to know the answer. And if they didn't know the answer -- or even if they did know, and the answer was negative -- they would be steered towards having the DVD not play. All this while there's perfectly legal DVD-playing software available in Ubuntu Software Center!

I propose instead that, first, we let people who know about libdvdcss, and who understand the risk (or otherwise) of it in their country, install it by any method they like. Second, if Totem opens to play an encrypted DVD while no known DVD-playing software is installed, we offer the solution that will work in practically every country: purchasing the DVD player software in Ubuntu Software Center. Third, that USC be smart enough to close, or be replaced by a progress window, or something like that, once you've started installing the one thing that it was opened to present. And fourth, that Totem (or GStreamer?) be smart enough to start playback automatically once installation completes.

The third step is vague because it should be designed to be roughly consistent with the solution to bug 860536. And designing all four steps would require input from developers familiar with USC and GStreamer -- at least to decide which software should play which parts.