Totem-gstreamer does not play home-made ISO files

[Andrew]

I have an issue playing home made ISO files with Totem in Ubuntu 8.04. ISO files that are DVD copies ripped with k9Copy play just fine as do most (but not all) other DVD ISO copies I have downloaded. DV file from camcorder converted to mpeg with ffmpeg, then authored with dvdauthor and mkisofs does not play in Totem, but plays just fine in both VLC and Mplayer (all software from Ubuntu repos, none are built manually).

Here are the commands I use to make the ISO from a DV file:

ffmpeg -i file.dv -threads 2 -mbd rd -flags +trell -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -g 100 -pass 1/2 -target pal-dvd /tmp/file.mpg

         dvdauthor -o /tmp/DVD/ -t --video=720x576+pal+16:9 --audio=ac3+en --file=/tmp/file.mpg

         dvdauthor -o /tmp/DVD/ -T

         mkisofs -dvd-video -o file.iso /tmp/DVD/

and here is the output I get when trying to play the file in totem as root (I do "sudo bash" first to get root shell, as playing it as the file owner simply says I do not have permissions):

root@everest:~/movies# totem legoclip.iso

** (totem:3387): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name
** Message: Error: Could not open resource for reading.
vcdsrc.c(421): gst_vcdsrc_start (): /play/source:
system error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

[Andrew (adhenry)]

Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 41335 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41335
>
> Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported
> into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further
> bugs you find.
>
> ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 41335
> DVD playing is not working correctly with totem-gstreamer
>
>
Hi Pedro!

I respectfully disagree. The bug that this is supposedly a duplicate of
is regarding DVD playback in Totem with fast forward/rewind and menus
not working. My bug regards the ability to play ISO files that I have
made myself.

If I get a raw DV file that I have recorded myself, it will play in
Totem-gstreamer. I can then convert the same file to MPEG-2 and it will
play in Totem-gstreamer, but as soon as I create an ISO file of that
MPEG-2 file, it will not play in Totem-gstreamer. Totem-gstreamer has
no issues playing other ISO files that contain MPEG-2 video (admittedly,
menus and controls do not work, but my ISOs do not play whatsoever).

I would have logged this as a bug with dvdauthor, but then I found out
that my ISO would play without issue in Mplayer and VLC, so this is
obviously a Totem-gstreamer issue.

Kind regards,
Andrew

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

It must be a Totem issue, but DVD playback is undergoing a major rewrite, and this problem is likely to be fixed in Intrepid, or will be very soon in the next release. We would appreciate if you can test it in Jaunty, then we'll investigate it. Fixing bugs about DVD playback in Hardy won't be done, sadly. Thanks for your report!