I am in the same boat as AlexE. The strangest thing for me is that
playing DVDs used to work just fine (without the region code set). Now
those same DVDs do not work -- they play the copyright warnings and
legal disclaimers and then stop with the error, "Could not open
location; you might not have permission to open the file" in Totem I
have tried other players too). This makes me lean towards the
possibility that an update somewhere broke DVD playback on my machine.

- My region code is set properly (it matches my region and the region of the 
DVD's I am trying to play). 
- I have the libdvdnav4, libdvdread4, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad and 
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly and libdvdcss2 packages installed as described at 
https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/musicvideophotos/C/video-dvd.html. 
I checked my version on libdvdread4 and it matches the version number of the 
"PPA" package described earlier in the thread. 
- I have tried several DVDs. 
- I have tried Totem, Gxine, VLC, and Kaffeine players. All basically say the 
same thing (basically, I might not have permission...). Also, using strace 
while running Totem from the CLI, I see errors as below:

libdvdread: Invalid title IFO (VTS_02_0.IFO).
** Message: Error: Could not read title information for DVD.
resindvdsrc.c(333): rsn_dvdsrc_start (): 
/GstPlayBin:play/RsnDvdBin:source/resinDvdSrc:dvdsrc:
system error: Input/output error

Additionally, I get some other errors, such as:

*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:862 ***
*** for pgc->cell_position_offset != 0 ***

*** Zero check failed in ifo_read.c:841
    for pgc->zero_1 = 0x8854


My system:
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty final with the latest packages
Lenovo 3000 N200 with stock DVD-RW drive. 
1.5 GB RAM
Dual-core Pentium CPU

I would attach my strace log but it's 1.8 GB. Please let me know if more
information is needed on this and I will supply it.

Thanks very much for your attention.

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Cannot play DVDs - Could not open location; you might not have permission to 
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342890
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