Repair manual DVDs play in Snow Leopard but not in Lion

Two of my tractor repair manual DVDs don't play in DVD Player (v.5.5) in the latest Lion OS on the latest iMac. They play well in Snow Leopard booted from an external drive on the same iMac. In Lion, the DVD Player just locks up. Is there a more recent DVD Player, or should I use a different player altogether? These are British DVDs, but since they play in SL, I would have expected them to play in Lion too. Any suggestions?

I have the same version 5.5 of DVD player running Lion and it works; however, I can't test it because I don't have British DVDs. Also couldn't have anything to do with Regions since they're working in SL. And, you don't need iDVD - that is an application to author/encode/burn homemade movies - it does not function as a DVD player. However, you may want to try VLC instead of DVD player - supposedly that'll play everything.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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