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Bug 393769 - Unable to play DVDs with Totem.
Unable to play DVDs with Totem.
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: GStreamer backend
2.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Maintainer alias for GStreamer component of Totem
Maintainer alias for GStreamer component of Totem
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-01-07 02:34 UTC by Rodd Clarkson
Modified: 2007-01-07 17:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Rodd Clarkson 2007-01-07 02:34:21 UTC 
When I try to play a dvd with totem I get the following message:

--------------------------------------------------------

 Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because you 
 do not have the appropriate plugins to handle it.

 Please install the necessary plugins and restart
 Totem to be able to play this media.

                                               [ OK ]

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I'm not sure what I'm supposed to have install.

I'm using FC6 with livna and gstreamer repos. I have:

gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.4-3.lvn6
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.2-0.3.20061108.lvn6
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.4-0.gst.1.6
gstreamer-tools-0.10.11-0.gst.1.6
gstreamer-0.10.11-0.gst.1.6
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.4-1.fc6
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.11-0.gst.1.6


If I insert a DVD into my drive and run the following on a command line, the DVD plays the DVD in a new window (without menus and the likes) so it would appear that I have the right plugins (or maybe not).

[rodd@localhost ~]$ gst-launch playbin uri=dvd:// 2> /dev/null 
New clock: audioclock0
Got EOS from element "playbin0".
Execution ended after 30175377000 ns.
[rodd@localhost ~]$
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2007-01-07 16:28:02 UTC 
There's no DVD support in the GStreamer 0.10 backend of Totem.
Comment 2 Tim-Philipp Müller 2007-01-07 17:42:29 UTC 
However, you may still be able to watch individual DVD titles if you have the dvdreadsrc, dvddemux and mpeg2dec plugins (and other audio plugins often required such as mp3 decoder and a52dec) by explicitly opening a dvd://1 URI (where 1 is the DVD title number).