GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 462871
DVD playback non-functional in Totem Movie Player
Last modified: 2007-08-03 11:52:36 UTC
Please describe the problem: When DVD in drive (the DVD does not have CSS encryption - this is a home made DVD), Totem refuses to load disk through Movie -> Play Disk. As a side note, When started (from GNOME menu, for example) and a DVD is mounted, Totem will attempt to play the disk on some track, however will not play any more than that one track. Also, all the Go menu options will not work, although they appear functional in the menu. Steps to reproduce: 1. Insert DVD, start Totem 2. Select Movie menu 3. Select Play Disk option. Actual results: Error: "Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because you do not have the appropriate plugins to handle it." Expected results: I suspect Totem is assuming these DVDs are copy-protected disks. Totem shouldn't assume the worst. I threw all my copy-protected media away years ago. If there is really a missing plug-in, then the error should state the name or reference. Does this happen every time? Yes, when using the Totem menu Movie -> Play Disk. Tried on multiple disks, even professionally mastered disks with no macromedia encryption and no CSS encryption. Other information: Ubuntu Feisty - gstreamer backend installed - libtotem-plparser1 installed
Using the command below will play one chapter (or is the correct term "track"?): totem dvd://0 totem dvd://1 ... etc The "Go" menu commands for DVD still do not work, there is no DVD menu, and the forward and backward buttons still do not work. These commands just play one track at a time. (Not sure if they play them in order, I do not think so.) Just for anyone else having a similar problem, using VLC or Xine will work around the GNOME-specific problem. Add these packages for Xine: (1) gxine (2) libxine1 (3) libxine1-ffmpeg and if not already installed... (4) libdvdread3 (5) libdvdnav4
This is stupid. Is this supposed to be a rant? First of all, why would you want to use gxine instead of the xine-lib backend of Totem, which provides the same level of DVD playback support. Secondly, this is a known problem, which is tracked in bug 344415, and a number of other bugs opened against GStreamer itself, and Totem's GStreamer backend. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 344415 ***