Comment 6 for bug 117240

No, it doesn't help. Totem-xine is not maintained as well as totem-gstreamer is, which the Gnome default. DVD playback must be implemented for totem-gstreamer too. Personally, as a user I don't give a monkey that a format is restricted or not. Canonical must pay the necessary royalties to have it legally implemented. There is a way to do it legally, so why Canonical doesn't? I wouldn't mind paying $10 or even $30 to buy Ubuntu if it was to have me a *number* of such headaches fixed for me.

Heck, instead of actually buying a commercial Ubuntu version, it should be the free version and then whenever we hit the wall with a legal problem, a firefox window opens to a special page where we can pay $1 or $2 (it doesn't cost more than that per issue resolved) to get our issues fixed. This way the main Ubuntu remains free, and whoever needs extra conveniences, can pay up! I don't oppose this at all because it's better than not having a solution or suggesting a version of totem that it's not properly maintained anymore.