It seems there is a bug with Feisty and tha lack of playability for DVD's which affects also the ability to RIP them.
For ripping I used DVD Rip, to install it (have your repositories enabled), do code:
sudo apt-get install dvdrip
But it wouldn work, just as I couldnt play movies either.
When I opened the movie player it said something like:
"The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. Are you trying to play an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss?"
I followed the step by step instructions like this one, code:
sudo apt-get install libdvdnav4 libdvdplay0 libdvdread3 libdvdcss2
sudo apt-get remove --purge totem totem-gstreamer
sudo apt-get install totem-xine
But I would still get the same error message. It told me that libdvdcss2 didnt have a target to install, so I did this in order to get around, code:
sudo sh /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
It seems that you cant use libdvdcss2 unless you install it this way.
Wow thanks! I have been working on this problem for days. I also had the same problem with OpenSUSE 10.2.