Fails to play DVDs from ISO files.

[Trouilliez vincent]

Binary package hint: totem

I am sure I reported this bug ages ago, still not fixed so I meant to dig out the report to say so, but after 10 minutes fighting with Malone's search engine, I failed to find the report. So I am filing it again, feel free to mark it as duplicate of the old report, should anyone find it some day !

Here goes:

I have a couple DVD. They are not encrypted and play just fine on a default Ubuntu install with totem gstreamer.
For convenience, I made an ISO file of the DVD's, to be able to play them from the hard disk.
That used to work just fine a year or two ago, but not anymore.

If I go to Movies->Open, the ISO files ARE listed as supported file types, however when I select one for playback, if fails and complains that:

" Error: Could not determine type of stream."

If I start totem from the command line, it's bit more verbose about the error:

"gsttypefindelement.c(737): gst_type_find_element_activate (): /play/decodebin0/typefind "

Would be cool to fix that, playing from ISO files is really a convenient feature.

If you need more debug information, just ask :-)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Trouilliez vincent (vincent-trouilliez-modulonet)]

> Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Oops, these aren't the same bugs, I know, I filed both of them myself ! ;-)
Bug 31372 was about ISO files not being listed in the file chooser (this has now been fixed BTW), whereas the present bug is about ISO filed failing to play.
The former bug has now been fixed, the latter is not ;-)

--
Vince

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the iso format is a disk image, not a video one. Can you play it with other sofwares? Can you attach a small example to the bug?

[Trouilliez vincent (vincent-trouilliez-modulonet)]

> the iso format is a disk image, not a video one.

Yeah, but a disk image of a video ! ;-)

> Can you play it with other sofwares?

Yes, it plays fine with Totem in Ubuntu Hoary and Breezy IIRC ;-)
But to answer your question, I just tried with VLC, and it works fine... like Totem USED to ;-)

> Can you attach a small example to the bug?

Huu, the ISO file of the DVD are several GB in size, not sure how I can make that smaller ?! :-(
But if you have a DVD at home, just make an ISO from it and see for yourself ?

I made the ISO images like this:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=DVD_foo.iso

[Marius Pana (mariusp)]

Using totem-xine you can play if you specify the absolute path to the iso as so:

    totem dvd:/absolute/path/to/dvd.iso

This might work with totem as well but I do not have one handy to try with.

[Trouilliez vincent (vincent-trouilliez-modulonet)]

> Using totem-xine you can play if you specify the absolute path to the iso as so:
> totem dvd:/absolute/path/to/dvd.iso

Doesn't seem to work for me, it complains that " there is no plugin to handle this movie"

Yes I do have the w32codecs package installed, but still.

God, that used to work just fine in previous releases, and it's so convenient, I hope upstream will fix this blatant and annoying regression :-/

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The current gstreamer package have no vcd plugins, upstream is working on it