[jaunty] doesn't offer to install codecs when inserting non encrypted DVD

[filip]

Binary package hint: gnome-codec-install

On a fresh Jaunty beta i386 (dutch language), when inserting a non encrypted dvd, the program (gnome-codec-install) pops up and search for the codecs but doesn't find any codecs. If i recall it correct it indicated "dvd-source not found" and quits. I think it doesn't crash because i don't get an apport message.
I find this a regression, in intrepid it downloaded the correct packages.
I managed to get the dvd to work by downloading the necessary packages with synaptic.
I hope this will be fixed before the actual release because a new user will think it just doesn't work.

[Denis Zalewsky (denis-zalewsky)]

I am observing the same issue with Jaunty

[Sam Geeraerts (samgee)]

Steps to reproduce:

* Do a fresh installation of Jaunty.
* Install the updates (up until today 2009-05-17).
* Insert the "Big Buck Bunny" PAL DVD in your DVD tray. A window appears asking what action to perform
* Pick the default (Open Movie Player) and click OK.
* The Totem movie player window appears, along with a dialog box "Search for suitable plugin?".
* Click on the Search button.
* A window appears titled "Install Multimedia Plugins". It says "Please select the packages for installation to provide the following plugins: - DVD Source". A popup window shows a progress bar while it searches. Then it says: "No packages with the requested plugins found".
* Click OK. The "Install Multimedia Plugins" window disappears and you're back with Totem. I has a new popup dialog saying: "An error occurred The playback of this movie requires a DVD source plugin which is not installed.".
* Click OK. Totem just sits there and nothing more happens.

I am able to play it now that I've installed VLC (right-click DVD icon on desktop, "Open With", 'Open with "VLC media player"').

[Sam Geeraerts (samgee)]

I took some time to analyze this some more. Here's what I did:

1. aptitude install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
2. Insert my "Big Buck Bunny" DVD in the DVD tray.
   a) A window appears asking what action to perform.
   b) I select "Open Movie Player" and click OK.
   c) Totem window appears, along with a dialog box with no title, containing the message "An error occured Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in.".
   d) I click OK and the DVD doesn't play.
3. aptitude --purge remove gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
4. aptitude --purge remove freepats gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad libcdaudio1 libcelt0 libdc1394-22 libffado0 libfftw3-3 libfreebob0 libgmyth0 libiptcdata0 libjack0 liblrdf0 libmms0 libneon27-gnutls libofa0 libopenspc0 libraptor1 libsoundtouch1c2 libwildmidi0 libxml++2.6-2 raptor-utils (all the dependencies that were pulled in by step 1)
5. aptitude install <package>, re-insert DVD, aptitude --purge remove <package>; <package> = each of the dependencies in step 4. Every try gave the "DVD Source" error as before.

So the only way to get rid of the "DVD Source" error is by installing the meta-package gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, it seems. I suspect this is because it has a debtag Gstreamer-Uri-Sources containing "dvd" (among others). But why doesn't the codec installer see this?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I get a error when trying this as well.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I suspect its a totem issue to not ask gstreamer for the missing codecs installation handler.

[Jordon Bedwell (envygeeks)]

I recently ran into this problem with an unencrypted DVD as well. I simply did:

aptitude install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

Which solved the problem. There was no need to uninstall any other plugins, just install the ugly plugins. This is more a problem with the plugin detection IMO than it is an error of anything.

[Sam Geeraerts (samgee)]

I could reproduce this as I did in comment 2 on a freshly installed up to date Ubuntu 10.04.

[Sam Geeraerts (samgee)]

I tried again In Ubuntu 9.10 (this time with Revolution OS disc 2). I first experienced bug #466123. After installing gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly and reinserting the DVD it went through these steps:

* Pick the default (Open Movie Player) and click OK.
* The Totem movie player window appears, along with a dialog box "Search for suitable plugin?".
* Click on the Search button.
* A window appears titled "Install Multimedia Plugins". It says "Please select the packages for installation to provide the following plugins: - GStreamer element dvdspu". A popup window shows a progress bar while it searches. Then it says: "No packages with the requested plugins found".
* Click OK. The "Install Multimedia Plugins" window disappears and I'm back with Totem. The "Free Software Song" music video starts playing immediately.

I don't know what fix was implemented, but it seems it could use a little polish. I'm not sure if this bug report should be reopened or a new one filed.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

the issue has been fixed in Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10

[Sam Geeraerts (samgee)]

I tried the steps in comment #2 again on a freshly installed Ubuntu 10.10 with the latest updates. I get almost the same result, except that in the second to last step (back with Totem) the pop-up dialog says "An error occurred Location not found." The final result is the same: Totem does not play the DVD.

[Matifou (matthieu-stigler)]

same for me on Ubuntu 10.10. Does not appear to be fixed