GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 344415
Can't play dvd from totem menu
Last modified: 2018-01-29 08:42:31 UTC
Please describe the problem: Totem cannot play any of the 2 dvds i've tried from the menu. 'totem dvd://' works fine though. Steps to reproduce: 1. start totem 2. Movie menu -> Play disc Actual results: Totem raises this error: "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." Expected results: watch the dvd Does this happen every time? yep Other information: This works: ~$ totem --debug dvd:// No accelerated IMDCT transform found No accelerated IMDCT transform found ** Message: don't know how to handle audio/x-dts ** Message: FIXME: gst_mpeg_demux_sync_stream_to_time ** Message: Couldn't initialize lirc. Play disc from the menu does not: ~$ totem --debug ** Message: Couldn't initialize lirc. closing closing closing closing
DVD support is still intentionally disabled from the menu due to a lack of DVD menu support. See bug 330086
*** Bug 355737 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > DVD support is still intentionally disabled from the menu due to a lack of DVD > menu support. See bug 330086 > So 330086 has been closed! Does that mean this bug is also solved?
> So 330086 has been closed! Does that mean this bug is also solved? > No, not really. While dvd:// URIs work (it will just play title 1 if you don't specify a title), we really want full DVD menu support.
*** Bug 462871 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Imported from Bug 462871. Using the command: "totem dvd://" will play one track only. At the end of the track, playback stops. Also, the forward and backward buttons still do not work. There is no way to play sub-tracks, so some of the DVD disk is inaccessible. Is the error correct since the problem is feature related, not plugin related?
(In reply to comment #6) > Imported from Bug 462871. > Using the command: "totem dvd://" will play one track only. At the end of the > track, playback stops. Also, the forward and backward buttons still do not > work. There is no way to play sub-tracks, so some of the DVD disk is > inaccessible. > > Is the error correct since the problem is feature related, not plugin related? There's no menu support in Totem GStreamer. You'll need to use "dvd://1", "dvd://2", etc. depending on which track of the DVD you want to play. And obviously, chapters don't work either (which is why fwd and bwd don't work). Tim, do we have a tracker bug for the GStreamer DVD support in Totem. If not, could you please create one?
Another workaround is to open and close the DVD drive, which should start Totem and begin playing. Rather annoying bug, but it's possible to live with it.
Ubuntu 7.10 Final I have installed all of the necessary gstreamer plugins and libdvdcss2 (medibuntu) and also have this problem. Reason for commenting is that the 'open and close' the drive workaround gives me audio but I still have no video. Actually, Totem gave me visualizations (as if I was playing music) but no video output. VLC Player works though. Should I be looking at something else regarding the video output?
(In reply to comment #7 from Bastien Nocera) > Tim, do we have a tracker bug for the GStreamer DVD support in Totem. If not, > could you please create one? Please, write tracker bug number for the GStreamer DVD support in Totem in this bugreport - it's very hard to find this bug as there are lots of bugreports about DVD playing problems with gstreamer and totem.
*** Bug 493997 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As per Bastien's comment http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344415#c7 I have created a tracker bug to make it easier to keep track of the various issues preventing proper DVD support in Totem-Gstreamer. The bug can be found here: Bug 502609 – [Tracker] GStreamer DVD Support in Totem I hope nobody minds me taking the liberty to create this.
Will now playback from the menu, although without menu support. 2008-02-07 Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> * src/backend/bacon-video-widget-gst-0.10.c: (bacon_video_widget_can_play), (bacon_video_widget_get_mrls): Enumerate the DVD titles using dvdreadsrc, and create a list of MRLs to play this back (Closes: #321709), check for the presence of dvdreadsrc to see whether we support DVD playback * src/totem-menu.c: (totem_action_add_recent): Don't add directories to the recent files * src/totem.c: (totem_action_load_media_device): Don't use the URL from TotemDisc to get the DVD MRL, use the backend instead
okay, so where is the "official" tracker bug for dvd issues now that this is closed?
There isn't one, because the current code works well enough given the capabilities of GStreamer. When GStreamer gets DVD menus navigation support, we'll create a new bug in Totem. Bear in mind that no one has filed a "DVD menu navigation missing" against totem GStreamer yet...
(In reply to comment #13) > Will now playback from the menu, although without menu support. Sorry, but totem-gstreamer 2.22.1 (using GStreamer 0.10.18) still doesn't play all DVD tracks - when I insert DVD disk totem autostarts but only first chapter is played and I don't have an ability to go to next chapter (there is only one chapter visible in playlist). When I open totem manually and choose "Movie"->Play Disk from menu then I see all DVD tracks in totem's playlist, but even in this case I can view only first track - totem always shows me the same content of the first track despite of the track chosen in playlist. I'm clicking on second, third, etc. tracks, totem seems to play them but actually always shows the same content of the first track :( Should I reopen this bug? I've installed gstreamer-plugins-good and -ugly on Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" with all updates. > 2008-02-07 Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> > > * src/backend/bacon-video-widget-gst-0.10.c: > (bacon_video_widget_can_play), (bacon_video_widget_get_mrls): > Enumerate the DVD titles using dvdreadsrc, and create a list > of MRLs to play this back (Closes: #321709), check for the > presence of dvdreadsrc to see whether we support DVD playback
> Bear in mind that no one has filed a "DVD menu navigation missing" against totem GStreamer yet... The resolution could also be more simply addressed by automatically advancing to the next DVD chapter.