Playing Video DVD in Totem results in error: "An Error Occurred - Could not read from resource"

[donald dickerson]

Binary package hint: totem

Ubuntu 10.10
Totem Movie Player 2.32.0
The dvd is obviously recognized as present in the drive, because it shows under "Places" as "LITTLE MERMAID_2". When I click on it, it shows two file folders: AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS along with a button that says, "Open Movie Player". When I click the button, the Totem Movie Player opens and I get:
"Could not read from resource."

Anybody have any ideas how to proceed?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: totem 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 39700cf3ff2735dc1559ef196d3656dc
CheckboxSystem: b1865df84255b8716d3bcc269ff410d1
Date: Fri Nov 12 16:24:11 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1464): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1471): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1471): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

thanks for your bug report. could you please install ubuntu-restricted-extras and try it again. i generally have problems with totem for dvd playback too you could try starting the .vob files. VLC have a better dvd support to my experience

[donald dickerson (aragorn881)]

I installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras. This had no effect.

The VLC player has the same problem. The dvd drive works, and I can see the file folders and files on the dvd, but when I try to play one, it won't play them.

I tried other DVD's in the drive. A friend's DVD, Red Versus Blue, which is a non-copyrighted dvd, played fine. However, "The Patriot" had the same problem.

This makes me think it has something to do with copyright protection.

[komputes (komputes)]

ubuntu-restricted extras installs libdvdread4 but the process does not end there if you require css decryption. donald, can you please use the following two commands and let us know if you are able to play copy-protected video DVDs (Little Mermaid, Patriot) afterwards.

1. Install libdvdread4 (may already be installed):
$ sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

2. Then install libdvdcss (through script which gets libdvdcss2.deb from medibuntu and installs it):
$ sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

[Kevin Morgan (kevm96)]

I had the exact same problem. I did as stated in the 12/15 comment by komputes, and his second command fixed the problem. Thank you very much.