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Playing DVDs in Fedora
When YumEx is loaded, click the Repo View icon, it's second from the bottom, on the left, to make sure Livna Base is selected. Then select the Package View icon, the open box, top icon on the left. Select the 'Available' radio button, and then enter 'libdvdcss' in the search box. Check the box for 'libdvdcss', and then click the 'Process Queue button in the lower right to install the rpm.
Now when I right click on the Firefly DVD icon, and select "Play DVD with Kaffeine, I get more than just the FBI copy warning, I get to see an episode of Firefly. Now that's shiny. All is right in the 'Verse.
[Edit] One other thing I needed to do was add my normal user id to the "disk" group. You can accomplish this with an Alt-F2 to get the Run Command dialog, and entering system-config-users. After entering the root password, edit the properties on your user id, then click on the 'groups' tab. Check off 'disk' to add yourself to the disk group. Now you should be able to access the dvd drive.

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