DVD navigation no longer works

[Oliver Elphick]

Binary package hint: totem

After release upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10, the Go menu no longer works. It is not possible to go to DVD menu, Title menu etc, nor does next/previous track work, nor does next track work from the pop-up menu invoked by a right-click, nor even from the controls visible below the movie window.

Totem release 2.24.2-0ubuntu4

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.24.2-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

Are you using totem-gstreamer or totem-xine? Totem-gstreamer has never been able to handle menus. If you did a fresh install, maybe you were using -xine on Hardy and now the fresh one gave you -gstreamer back?

[Oliver Elphick (olly-lfix)]

I'm using totem-gstreamer; I tried totem-xine and it does indeed work. Thanks for the hint.

Of course, this does raise the question of why totem-gstreamer is included at all, if totem-xine works and totem-gstreamer doesn't?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

don't you think that's comparing one feature is not enough to judge two multimedia framework, gstreamer is better integrated in GNOME and has many advantages over xine too

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

Curiousity makes me ask: what are those advantages? All I've ever
noticed of gstreamer is that it lacks features xine's had for years.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

I'm closing this report since Totem has never handled DVD menus correctly in the past (sadly...). This is an ongoing work and will maybe be reaady for Jaunty. See bug 260765 about problems with menu support in Intrepid. If you want to report informations there, please just go on!