Totem movie player could not read from resource. Known good disc, known good drive, latest gstream SW installed.

[kathy]

Binary package hint: totem

Upon inserting a known good DVD into a known good DVD drive, Totem Movie Player auto opens immediately followed by an error message. Error message says: "An error occurred. Could not read from resource." I have done much research and investigation to find a solution and allow Totem Movie Player to successfully play a DVD movie, all to no avail. Research includes but is not limited to; scouring the launchpad site, scouring the Ubuntu documented sites, searching external Linux/Ubuntu websites, and asking a Linux/Ubuntu knowledgeable co-worker. All of these sources either provided information irrelevant to my problem, or their suggestion(s) did not resolve the issue. Steps I have taken include re seating/reinstalling the DVD drive, updating all packages, and downloading/installing Gstreamer0.8dvd and Gstreamer0.8MPEG2dec. Those last two packages were installed at the advice of William Smith's recent article (Apr 07?) in Maximum PC magazine, pg51. All of my attempts to resolve this issue have proved fruitless. Any assistance with this issue would be greatly appreciated. I understand it is customary to post responses in the Launchpad Forum. However, I will not always be able to access the Launchpad Forum. If I may be so bold, may I request an email notification that a possible answer has been posted. Perhaps even with a link? Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to the intelligent answers I hope to soon receive.

Thank you,

Josh Havens

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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 27 13:43:19 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.18.1-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: totem /media/AQUA_TEEN_HUNGER_FORCE
ProcCwd: /home/kathy
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux kathy-desktop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[AndrewArchibald (andrew-archibald)]

Josh/Kathy,

Installing 'totem-xine' should resolve your issue. You can do this through the Synaptic Package Manager (System -> Administration menu), or by typing 'aptitude install totem-xine' in a console.

Hope this helps.

Andrew.

[AndrewArchibald (andrew-archibald)]

Actually you might want to read the instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

[Eugenia Loli-Queru (eloli)]

No, it doesn't help. Totem-xine is not maintained as well as totem-gstreamer is, which the Gnome default. DVD playback must be implemented for totem-gstreamer too. Personally, as a user I don't give a monkey that a format is restricted or not. Canonical must pay the necessary royalties to have it legally implemented. There is a way to do it legally, so why Canonical doesn't? I wouldn't mind paying $10 or even $30 to buy Ubuntu if it was to have me a *number* of such headaches fixed for me.

Heck, instead of actually buying a commercial Ubuntu version, it should be the free version and then whenever we hit the wall with a legal problem, a firefox window opens to a special page where we can pay $1 or $2 (it doesn't cost more than that per issue resolved) to get our issues fixed. This way the main Ubuntu remains free, and whoever needs extra conveniences, can pay up! I don't oppose this at all because it's better than not having a solution or suggesting a version of totem that it's not properly maintained anymore.

[fedepop (fedepop)]

Thanks Sebastien
Federico.

On 5/27/07, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 41335 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41335
>
> Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been
> reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.
>
> ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
> Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 41335
> DVD playing is not working correctly with totem-gstreamer
>
> --
> Totem movie player could not read from resource. Known good disc, known good drive, latest gstream SW installed.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117240
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (via bug 41335).
>

[AndrewArchibald (andrew-archibald)]

'It doesn't help'? Actually I think that describing a solution that works well for me and pointing the user towards the documentation absolutely helps. And totem-xine is well enough supported that it is still listed as an option upstream ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/ ) and packaged as part of the main debian distribution.

Discussions about current Ubuntu policy isn't going to help this user. Not that it is relevant, but I agree that it would be good for the default media player to have full support for DVDs. For the moment this isn't the case. If you require more DVD functionality than gstreamer has then, as a user, you must install libdvdcss2 and use a different totem backend (xine) or a different media player. Both options are covered on the wiki page I linked to.

[Eugenia Loli-Queru (eloli)]

I have problems with totem-xine, and also, I prefer to use the defaults. Totem-gstreamer is the default and it's the most tested version for the last few months.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

using totem-xine instead of totem-gstreamer is not recommended, if you need a DVD player better to install xine-ui or vlc and use it to play DVDs and keep using totem-gstreamer for everything else

[Dilomo (ankere)]

I also experience problems with reading a movie from my HD. Will there be update soon? I had to install gxine to watch my movie.

[govinda6666 (ariccanfly)]

confirmed 8.04 ...

[LazyEngineer (lazyengineer)]

Ubuntu 8.04, updated as of today. Problem persists. VLC Media Player also fails. GSTREAMER Extra Plugins installed via add/remove - this also didn't help.

I'm not sure I agree that this is a duplicate bug to #41335.

[Przemyslaw Kilinski (centrum)]

sudo aptitude install libdvdnav4 libdvdplay0 libdvdread3 libdvdcss

sudo aptitude remove --purge totem totem-gstreamer

sudo aptitude install totem-xine

Should help if you have the required repositories.

[grampamoses (strooxstroox)]

I was having the exact same problem. I spent hours fixing things, double checking to have libdvdcss2, libdvdread3, ubuntu-restricted-extras, and whatever else installed. I tried playing several of the .VOB files, and some of them worked, so I think it was a menu issue. In any case, this last step worked for me.

Thanks Kilinski.

[Eric Link (link-sandlion)]

This is messy, but fixed it for me in 9.04 (Jaunty):
sudo apt-get remove vlc
sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
sudo apt-get install libdvdnav4
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
sudo apt-get install totem-xine
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update;sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install vlc

DVDs work now in both totem and vlc, w/ proper DVD menus in vlc and in totem-xine

[Mike Smithers (mike-mikesmithers67)]

Eric,

I just tried your suggestion ( #16 on the list) in 9.10 and it works on this version as well.

Thanks.

[hidinginthemountains (hidinginthemountains)]

#16 worked for me as well, also in 9.10! Thanks tons. I don't know what those steps fixed, but something had gone wrong. I was actually concerned that my DVD drive itself had spontaneously died...

[hidinginthemountains (hidinginthemountains)]

in case it's of help to anyone, here's the terminal output from when I did those steps.

[Thomas Edwards (tom-rb-edwards)]

The solution in #16 works for me on Ubuntu 10.04 after I reboot.

Thanks

[nials (ghislainbroderoger)]

As #20 said, it works in lucid after reboot.

Thanks a lot