Totem does not play full unscrambled dvd

[Tomasz Melcer]

Binary package hint: totem

Ubuntu karmic, fully upgraded.

I have a set of commercial DVDs (Ghost in the Shell, polish edition) (all of them are reported as unscrambled, or not encrypted, by libdvdcss2, which I do have installed).

When I try to watch them in totem (either by choosing totem in the dialog window which shows up just after the cd is inserted, or by calling `totem dvd://`), totem starts up but does not show anything. The application does not hang or crash -- simply nothing is played, the video is blank, I cannot press play button and the video properties are blank.

The same set of DVDs do work (as in: can be played) when I launch totem by `totem dvd://2` (or any other valid title number)... as long as the title chosen is not 1 or the title with menu (this varies in different DVDs). So: `totem dvd://1` does not work, `totem dvd://2` works, ... `totem dvd://10` works, `totem dvd://11` does not work (and it contains the main menu). For numbers which work the video properties pane shows all the data correctly.

Xine from `xine-ui` package plays them correctly and shows the animated menu... but I cannot manipulate it (its DVD menu controls does not work).

mplayer does play all the DVDs too, again I could not manipulate the menu there (even with `-dvdnav` option).

I would provide a backtrace, but none of the programs crash... so I think it wouldn't do much. I'm filling this to totem because it doesn't even show the menu. The funny thing is, that totem used to work correctly before an upgrade somewhere during last Christmas; if someone points me to an archive with older karmic packages, I'd test them.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 26 00:26:29 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.25-2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could be a libdvdread issue, reassigning for now

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

This may be a libdvdnav issue. There is a libdvdnav version available in -proposed repository. Does that version fix the issue for you?

[Tomasz Melcer (liori)]

Yes, it did. Thank you for help.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

@Tomasz,

Can you please check bug #466389 if it is reproducible to you. Also if the package from -proposed fixes that issue for you please add a comment on that bug.