Playing DVDs using totem?

[Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This has probably been discussed before, but is anyone actually using 
totem to play DVDs these days? I've tried variants from various distros 
and installed every gstreamer plugin I can think of, but it still won't 
work. Originally, it wouldn't recognise DVDs at all, of course, now it 
will either crash or give messages like

don't know how to handle video/x-dvd-subpicture

And, no, I don't think I want to use xine or mplayer or whatever 
instead. I think they all have pretty lousy UIs, and mplayer in 
particular has also proven to be rather unreliable. I know one 
application that generally just works most of the time, though: It's 
Ogle (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~dvd/) Some of its features are 
incomplete, however, and it seems like there hasn't been a lot of 
development lately, and I've come across one DVD it won't play, so I 
thought I might try something else...