Hi,
I have mplayer and ogle installed on my laptop running FreeBSD 4.8 ( I have installed mandrake 9.1 before on this laptop and I don't have problem with DVD player (mplayer,xine) running like champ ) and I tried Xine but I don't like it cause I cannot play any DVD movies.
I like Ogle unfortunately they have "ugly gui" but even Ogle look ugly they can play any DVD movies and I like mplayer too it's very cool (I love their skins) and I watch DVD alot on my laptop and I don't have problem whatsoever to play it ..very smooth and good quality.
I have Pentium 4 , 2.2GHz 64MB NVIDIA GeForce4 512RAM.

cheers