[dvd movie play test] test should be replaced with dvd read test

[Jeff Lane ]

The test that is for playing DVD movies (specifically asks user to launch totem and play a DVD) should probably be removed since we don't actually provide the DVD codecs by default in installation.

Testing this would require installing things from the restricted repos.

A possible solution would be to replace this test with a simple "read a data DVD" test instead.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Yeah, we really just want to confirm the drive works - not get into the nitty gritty of playback.

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Moving to checkbox

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

See bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkbox/+bug/868643, which actually asks to remove dvd_playback and keep dvd_movie_playback. Yet *this* bug advocates removing dvd_movie_playback.

We already have a test that verifies both dvd write/reads for data (dvd/write)., also optical/read is not, I think, CD-specific, so it should also work on (and test) DVD drives.

I also asked Samantha whether they test for DVD movie playback, she said that if/when they test, they do so entirely manually, without checkbox, partly because of the need to install the codecs manually.

Based on this, I think we should remove dvd_playback altogether (commented on the other bug to compartmentalize stuff), and use this one to determine if we want to keep dvd_movie_playback or we also get rid of it. If we keep it, we need to make it so it at the very least gives clear instructions to install the codec. Adding the codec's packages to checkbox dependencies would be cleaner but there's a manual step required which may give trouble.

I'll set to incomplete pending some discussion on what we want to do with optical/dvd_movie_playback.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

fixed by changing the testing used for DVD/CD drives