major DVD playback bug with Totem

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Binary package hint: totem

I have major problems making Totem working with an encrypted DVD. Libdvdcss is installed, and when I pop up the DVD disk in the drive HAL loads Totem and Totem *plays* perfectly the video. However, none of the DVD options/buttons work (chapters, forward/previous, skip etc etc). If I stop that video and I try to reload the DVD video again from the menu this time, I get an error saying that I don't have the necessary plugins to view encrypted DVD video!!

It seems that your new code that loads the special restricted plugin application when Totem detects a non-suppored codec is buggy. It seems that Totem is now conditioned to ONLY work with YOUR libraries and not with the same libraries that were packaged by other people! I believe that this is why Totem completely ignores the fact that libdvdcss is installed correctly and doesn't let me play a DVD. Please fix this, because as it stands now, there is no way to play a DVD video on Ubuntu when libdvdcss is installed.

Please try it yourself. Install a libdvdcss, pop a DVD and stop Totem or try to skip a chapter and then retry to replay the video, it won't work! If you are not going to fix this then at least you _must_ provide your version of libdvdcss automatically when an encrypted DVD is detected as unsupported. But I understand that this is shady depending on which country you are in, so you must test Totem to make sure it works with any libdvdcss package that a random user will install.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Do you use totem-gstreamer or totem-xine? What you call "your new code" is an upstream gstreamer thing. If you use totem-gstreamer it's known to not work correctly at the moment (bug #41335), the fluendo team is not allowed to work on it and no community member picked on the task yet. If you use totem-xine there is no easy codec installation used, the code is specific to gstreamer

[Eugenia Loli-Queru (eloli)]

I use totem-gstreamer. I like using the defaults. I think it would be a bummer to release Feisty without DVD playback capability (after the user manually installs libdvdcss2 that is).

VLC has its own problems (the wxGTK UI has bugs under Ubuntu -- the volume meter is not displaying) and mplayer sucks (that app is always on a whack). I hope someone takes on the task because it might put off quite a few new users who don't know what else to use.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

right, that feature is something totem-gstreamer really lacks at the moment. Marking duplicate