Draging to resize, or double-click to full screen makes Movie Player dissapear

[Crosscheck]

Binary package hint: totem

Totem closes while attempting to resize or full screen the window; via drag or double-click. However, on occasion it will squash an anamorphic widescreen movie into a 4:3 full screen (everything is tall & thin). Attempts to resize either remain squashed or close Totem altogether.

This only happens with actual DVD discs. I've been playing movies I ripped to .avi (xvid & .AC3) without error.

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and am a total noob...working on converting from "Windoze" (advanced with that, so any translative language would be much appreciated).

I followed some forum threads about installing codecs and upgrading programs.

Please advise...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Crosscheck (john-thorough-tech)]

I really want to provide you with this info, but I keep running into a
problem with several things I try to do in Ubuntu; in this case making
changes to my source list.

This is obviously a noob problem. When I try to go somewhere to edit or
access a file, I often get "Permission denied". My only way around this is
when I luck out and am prompted for my password to gain admin privileges.
However I haven't figured out the magic command or process to say to my
OS, "I want to do such and such as admin NOW!"

I know I could just do the GRANT *.* thing to my profile, but I'm trying
to stay more secure than that.

Can you help me with that info?

Thanks!

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the
> instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload
> the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly
> help us in tracking down your problem.
>
> ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
>
> --
> Draging to resize, or double-click to full screen makes Movie Player
> dissapear
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411681
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: totem
>
> Totem closes while attempting to resize or full screen the window; via
> drag or double-click. However, on occasion it will squash an anamorphic
> widescreen movie into a 4:3 full screen (everything is tall & thin).
> Attempts to resize either remain squashed or close Totem altogether.
>
> This only happens with actual DVD discs. I've been playing movies I ripped
> to .avi (xvid & .AC3) without error.
>
> I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and am a total noob...working on converting from
> "Windoze" (advanced with that, so any translative language would be much
> appreciated).
>
> I followed some forum threads about installing codecs and upgrading
> programs.
>
> Please advise...
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
> Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: totem
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic i686
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you can use use sudo before the command you want to use, ie sudo editor sources.list

[Crosscheck (john-thorough-tech)]

Thanks for the sudo tip Sebastien! That connected a lot of dots for me. I'm
a little closer now, but still stuck.

Here's what I tried in the terminal:

 sudo /etc/apt/sources.list

 sudo /filesystem/etc/apt/sources.list

Each of those returned; 'Command not found', or 'location unknown' or
something like that. I think I discovered that / is the root, so adding
'filesystem' is just redundant. Am I right?

Then just tried doing the old cd drill-down method, just as I would with
Windows. I successfully changed directory to /etc/apt but now cannot figure
out open sources.list from there.

I drilled down in the GUI by going to Places -> Computer and opened the
sources.list file in text editor, but then I don't have the permissions to
save changes after adding the lines your link instructed.

A thousand apologies for my noobness. At this point I'm still all drive and
no vector...

- John

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Sebastien Bacher
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:02 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 411681] Re: Draging to resize,or double-click to full screen
makes Movie Player dissapear

you can use use sudo before the command you want to use, ie sudo editor
sources.list

--
Draging to resize, or double-click to full screen makes Movie Player
dissapear
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411681
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
of the bug.

Status in "totem" package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: totem

Totem closes while attempting to resize or full screen the window; via drag
or double-click. However, on occasion it will squash an anamorphic
widescreen movie into a 4:3 full screen (everything is tall & thin).
Attempts to resize either remain squashed or close Totem altogether.

This only happens with actual DVD discs. I've been playing movies I ripped
to .avi (xvid & .AC3) without error.

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and am a total noob...working on converting from
"Windoze" (advanced with that, so any translative language would be much
appreciated).

I followed some forum threads about installing codecs and upgrading
programs.

Please advise...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

those are files not editors, you want to use gksudo gedit sources.list for example

[Crosscheck (john-thorough-tech)]

Sorry about the delayed response.

Tried the instructions on the KB page, but couldn't update as the attempt
returned this:

Type 'gpg' is not known on line 65 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list,
E:The list of sources could not be read

I also got this same error when tying to run the update manager.

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Sebastien Bacher
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:44 AM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 411681] Re: Draging to resize,or double-click to full screen
makes Movie Player dissapear

those are files not editors, you want to use gksudo gedit sources.list
for example

--
Draging to resize, or double-click to full screen makes Movie Player
dissapear
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411681
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
of the bug.

Status in "totem" package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: totem

Totem closes while attempting to resize or full screen the window; via drag
or double-click. However, on occasion it will squash an anamorphic
widescreen movie into a 4:3 full screen (everything is tall & thin).
Attempts to resize either remain squashed or close Totem altogether.

This only happens with actual DVD discs. I've been playing movies I ripped
to .avi (xvid & .AC3) without error.

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and am a total noob...working on converting from
"Windoze" (advanced with that, so any translative language would be much
appreciated).

I followed some forum threads about installing codecs and upgrading
programs.

Please advise...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic i686

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Crosscheck, can you please check with the latest version of ubuntu and see if this bug still affects you.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!