This can be easily reproduced by using gst-launch btw...

With the following patches, it sometimes works. Trying to fix the remaining race next.

commit 786b0c248ce019e535f0307b4b105a665d8782d1
Author: Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@collabora.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Mar 24 12:22:37 2009 +0100

    playbin2: blacklist subpictures for now
    
    Blacklist the subpictures until we add support for them.
    Add some small debug info.
    See #576408.

commit 852ace9cce843144cafdbfb84ff2e05fbb226d69
Author: Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@collabora.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Mar 24 12:19:30 2009 +0100

    uridecodebin: expose more media types
    
    Expose more media types from a raw source, such as the subpicture and various
    text pads.
    Small cleanups  and add some more debugging.
    See #576408.

"Sometimes works" with the regression that DVD menus and subtitles no longer appear, of course...

Yeah, that's not really a fix ;)

I was refering to this bugreport, namely that there is a deadlock!

commit 9bf8277d135e818ce502ad1dd9956929382f136c
Author: Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@collabora.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Mar 24 18:29:28 2009 +0100

    playbin2: add more support for subpictures

commit e7b382c6a9e1bec3cf7772989a9093818a112de9
Author: Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@collabora.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Mar 24 17:12:53 2009 +0100

    playbin2: first support for subpictures
    
    Add beginnings of subpicture support.

the remaining thing is now that rsndvdbin pushes data on the pads from the thread that should have emited no_more_pads() first.

Ok, so the remaining bug is in rsndvdbin and the behaviour should be still the same until that's fixed? Because for me it still deadlocks when trying to play a DVD with menus :)

This was apparently fixed by one of Jan's latest changes to resindvd