movie palyer doesn't start the movie

[Giovanni Congedo]

Binary package hint: totem

No movie on DVD starts. There might be the menu window sometime, but the movie doesn't start

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: totem 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 1 12:27:36 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem

[Simon Bull (simon-d-bull)]

I have also tried this.

I placed a DVD movie into my PC, and selected the 'play in movie player' feature in the auto-run pop-up.
After doing this, movie player opened, but an error box appeared stating "Could not read from resource".

N.B. The movie works fine on Windows Media Player, using Windows XP, but not on Ubuntu.

Regards
Simon

[Simon Bull (simon-d-bull)]

Apologies...it looks as if i haven't installed libdvd4 yet

Regards

[Simon Bull (simon-d-bull)]

Also...
totem comes up with a more friendly message such as 'Could not play restricted DVD as package libdvdread4 is not installed'

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Giovanni, could you install libdvd4 and see if the issue is still there for more information on the subject please read this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs and the problem should be solved. we are sorry for the inconvenience.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.