Playing DVDs in Ubuntu is a pain

I've set up playing DVDs in Ubuntu 9.10 before.  Today, trying to install with 10.04 LTS and it was a pain.  I finally found the page I looked at before about playing restricted formats.  Right now, I managed to install VLC (after running two command lines), but it still won't play in Movie Player.  So, I'm using the instructions on this page about restricted formats.  I had installed the packages for playing DVDs, but it still wouldn't work, so I got VLC.