Problem 19 with solution: DVD playback

By default OpenSuSE has DVD playback disabled. There is an easy one-click install for KDE here. But my first attempt at using it failed: it requires a yast2-metapackage-handler. For some reason, it was not installed by default. It then refused to install from the web - because I originally installed from the DVD, yast2 insisted on bringing it and all its dependencies from DVD, too, even though I told it to use the web. Eventually I found the DVD and installed from there. Once this was sorted out, the DVD playback installed smoothly, and DVDs play reasonably well, though the image is slightly blurred at times. Interestingly, the metapackage also included a slightly different version of java plugin which fixed my previous java with Firefox problem.