Keith Irwin wrote:
I actually wrote that last answer as a preemptive answer to the question that I thought was coming. But having said that, I realized that the legality of mplayer, xine, ffmpeg, transcode, and a whole bunch of other stuff is pretty questionable in the US since they violate the software patents which we have in the US. And more importantly, MythDVD relies on DeCSS, so that's probably not the answer. So I withdraw my answer. I was guessing, and I likely guessed wrong.
xine and MPlayer (and all other packages you mentioned) do not have dependencies on deCSS. In their default configurations, xine/MPlayer can play /unencrypted/ DVD's and /neither/ can play encrypted DVD's. A user must explicitly install libdvdcss--*as a separate package*--to get encrypted DVD decoding support.
(Oh, and MythDVD works just fine with MPlayer or xine on a system without libdvdcss--it just won't allow you to play encrypted DVD's. All unencrypted DVD's--like the ones you're likely to make yourself--play just fine.)
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