Totem won't autoplay DVD
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
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Low
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Bug Description
When I insert a DVD into the DVD-ROM drive, Totem starts and tries to play it. But it fails with the message: "Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file".
Oddly, I am able to navigate in xfce to /media/cdrom0 and view the files.
Stranger still, if I open a terminal window and type: "totem /media/cdrom0" at the prompt the DVD plays perfectly with menus acting correctly.
Originally I had noticed user and group permissions on the mounted DVD would reference a very large integer. So i had thought this problem was caused by bad users, groups or permissions. But I have completely ruled that out with my above test - the only difference between playing and not playing is how totem starts: autoplay vs from the commandline.
I do not know how to capture errors when starting totem via autoplay, but if someone can tell me how I would be happy to try it.
I want to be really clear because there are a lot of similar sounding bugs and complaints on the forum pages: This bug IS NOT caused by: A) missing libraries (libdvdcss2) - I proved that by playing the dvd from the command line. B) problems with fstab, mounting issues - I proved that by running from the command line above as user, no sudo.
Has to be something about the way Totem starts under auto play vs from the terminal.
have you tried using totem-xine? I had problems with the original install of totem not working, but once I started using totem-xine it started playing dvds fine.