totem-xine config file reset automatically

[IvanYung]

Binary package hint: totem

I make some amendment to the totem-xine config file "~/.gnome2/totem_config" without Totem started. After save the file, I open Totem and chose "File -> Open Location", I type an address inside the "Open location Box" and click ok. All my amendment saved in the totem_config file will lost and the totem_config file is reset to default.

[IvanYung (faiyung)]

I use Ubuntu 7.04 with Totem version of 2.18.1 using xine-lib version 1.14 under Gnome Desktop.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What change do you do in the configuration?

[IvanYung (faiyung)]

Thank you for your response, I cannot remember exactly what I have done last time. Tonight, I make the add and remove lots of line from the configuration file and the problem still exist. The text below is the content of the configuration file after amendment.

.version:2
audio.device.alsa_front_device:default
input.cdda_use_cddb:0
media.audio_cd.device:/dev/hdc
media.audio_cd.use_cddb:0
media.dvd.device:/dev/hdc
media.vcd.device:/dev/hdc
decoder.external.win32_codecs_path:/usr/lib/win32
subtitles.separate.subtitle_size:large
subtitles.separate.src_encoding:utf-8
effects.goom.fps:25
effects.goom.height:320
effects.goom.width:426
engine.performance.memcpy_method:mmxext

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

To confirm by somebody using the xine backend. Maybe worth trying with xine-ui also in case that would be a libxine bug

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Is your file replaced if you don't do changes to it? Does it happen with any video?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

There is a similar issue described on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457298

[IvanYung (faiyung)]

Yes, my configuration file is replaced even playing mp3 with totem. Thanks for your time.

[Jelle De Loecker (skerit)]

Are these configurations hard-coded or what?

I want Totem to use AC3 pass through, but that setting won't stick. When I change it in gconf-editor, next time I restart totem will just go back to 5.1 surround ...

[Iulian Udrea (iulian)]

Thank you for your bug report. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try to reproduce this bug with latest Ubuntu release?

[IvanYung (faiyung)]

Thank you for your reply, I have uninstall totem-xine and change to mplayer after my upgrade to ubuntu 7.10.

Iulian Udrea <email address hidden> 說： Thank you for your bug report. You reported this bug a while ago and
there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this
still an issue for you? Can you try to reproduce this bug with latest
Ubuntu release?

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[Iulian Udrea (iulian)]

Thanks for the information. We are closing this bug report. Please reopen it if you still have this issue and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

Thank you.

[Adrianus (adrianus-kurnadi)]

I want to ask this bug to be re-opened.
Like Ivanyung I edit ~/.config/totem/xine_config but my reason to edit it is because the current media.vcd.device parameter is set to /media/cdrom0
I tried to make totem play vcd via Movie->Play disc command
I am using Ubuntu 8.04 for i386, and currently I can only play VCD with xine-ui or with totem-xine via command line
$ totem vcd:///dev/cdrom

If I use
$ totem vcd:///media/cdrom0
then the totem will complain that "There is no input plugin to handle the location of this movie"

I suspect that the current Movie->Play disc will use /media/cdrom0 (the mounted cd) when what it needed was /dev/cdrom (the link to the device file).
I also suspect that by editing the xine_config file then totem-xine would use /dev/cdrom to play vcd but after I edit the file and save it, everytime I ran totem to play something the file get reset back.

I have search via googles about totem-xine unable to play vcd and many people think that totem-xine is unable to play vcd and switch to mplayer or vlc for that purpose. But one of the entries I found in the internet point me that there might be no symlink /cdrom that points to /dev/cdrom

If there is any info that I can supply to help solve this bug please tell me what is needed.

[quequotion (quequotion)]

I am also having this problem. I remember that there's a trick to this, but I thought it involved changing the last option in the config (allow implicit changes). Apparently I was wrong. It seems totem-xine resets the config file by design and I think there is some way one can convince totem-xine to accept alterations but I can't remember it clearly.