GStreamer is a very good idea. Having a framework for AV playback is much better than the ad-hoc approach of different apps we have at the moment. You do need to install quite a few extras though to get a decent gstreamer based system. See the yum repos at the gstreamer website.
Well, I run gentoo, so yum doesn't help. I'm pretty sure I've got all the required plugins however, but it's worth checking out I guess.
My experience with mplayer hasn't been so good. It only seemed to be able to play back the main movie.
You can navigate through multiple titles/chapters on the DVD, you just can't get to the root menu. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.