Totem could not play 'dvd://'. Could not read title information for DVD.

[Mark]

I have downloaded all the codecs and other updates I could find on the multiuniversal and universal repositories. Do I need to change the preferences for DVD's to be played?

[Mark (twistedtexan)]

I have not been able to play any dvd's. All come up with the same error.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Which totem backend are you using, and what version of the totem package do you have installed? Does this occur with all DVDs or just one particular one?

What packages have you installed to try to get DVD working?

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Oops, waited too long on my comment.

Try the totem-xine package.

[Mark (twistedtexan)]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 17:41 +0000, Phil Bull wrote:
> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32004
>
> Task: ubuntu totem
> Severity: Major => Normal
> Priority: High => None
> Assignee: Mark => (unassigned)
> Target: ubuntu-5.10 => None
>
> Comment:
> Oops, waited too long on my comment.
>
> Try the totem-xine package.
I tried to find the totem-xine update or file and could not find it
anywhere. Where do I go to find it?

[Mark (twistedtexan)]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 17:38 +0000, Phil Bull wrote:
> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32004
>
> Comment:
> Which totem backend are you using, and what version of the totem package
> do you have installed? Does this occur with all DVDs or just one
> particular one?
>
> What packages have you installed to try to get DVD working?
How do I find out what Backend I am using?

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Thanks for the replies.

To find out which backend you are using, open Totem, go to Help | About and it should be listed under the Totem version number.

To install totem-xine, open System | Administration | Synaptic Package Manager, search for 'totem-xine', mark it for installation by right-clicking the totem-xine package and then click the Apply button. This will install totem-xine, which will just be called 'Movie Player' or 'Totem' in the Applications menu. Then try to play a DVD using it!

Hope this helps

[Mark (twistedtexan)]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 19:18 +0000, Phil Bull wrote:
> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32004
>
> Comment:
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> To find out which backend you are using, open Totem, go to Help | About
> and it should be listed under the Totem version number.
>
> To install totem-xine, open System | Administration | Synaptic Package
> Manager, search for 'totem-xine', mark it for installation by right-
> clicking the totem-xine package and then click the Apply button. This
> will install totem-xine, which will just be called 'Movie Player' or
> 'Totem' in the Applications menu. Then try to play a DVD using it!
>
> Hope this helps
Thanks I'm in the process of getting Totem-xine +2 files

[Eric Fallon (eric-fallon)]

I have two machines, one being an x86 and the other being an AMD64. I installed gstreamer0.8-plugins on both machines. On the x86, DVD's play fine. On my AMD64 machine I receive the "Could not read title information for DVD" error as stated in the previous posts.

I have gotten around the problem for the time being by simply installing totem-xine on my AMD64 machine which plays DVD's without error.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Hi Eric

Could you run Totem from the terminal and try to play a DVD? You'll get some messages printed in the terminal, could you attach them to this bug please?

I'm thinking it's a missing package or libdvdcss or similar.

[Eric Fallon (eric-fallon)]

Attached are the output messages I receive when running Totem from the command line. I have the following packages installed on my AMD64 machine:

gstreamer0.8-dvd (0.8.11-0ubuntu5)
gstreamer0.8-plugins (0.8.11-0ubuntu5)
libdvdnav4 (0.9.4-5)
libdvdread3 (0.9.4-5)
totem (1.2.0-0ubuntu3)
totem-gstreamer (1.2.0-0ubuntu3)

These packages are all installed on my i386 machine as well.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you run "dpkg -l libdvd\*" and copy that to a comment? "libdvdnav4 (0.9.4-5)" seems not a correct version for that package

[Eric Fallon (eric-fallon)]

Hello, Sorry about that, I had the wrong version above, libdvdnav4 is actually 0.1.9-3. I get the same output below on both of my PC's:

efallon@LATERALUS:~$ dpkg -l libdvd\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un libdvdcss2 <none> (no description available)
ii libdvdnav4 0.1.9-3 The DVD navigation library
un libdvdread1 <none> (no description available)
ii libdvdread3 0.9.4-5 Simple foundation for reading DVDs

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

There are a couple of lines in your error message:

libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.

Do you have libdvdcss installed? See the forums for instructions:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=116877

[Eric Fallon (eric-fallon)]

Hi Phil

I installed libdvdcss and still receive the following error when attempting to play a DVD:
(totem:13521): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_closure: assertion `gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure (accel_closure) != NULL' failed

(totem:13521): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_set_accel_closure: assertion `gtk_accel_group_from_accel_closure (accel_closure) != NULL' failed
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.5 for DVD access
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.

It is strange though because on my i386 machine libdvdcss2 is not installed and these DVDs play fine.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Do you get a different error message after installing libdvdcss?

[Eric Fallon (eric-fallon)]

Yes, the error message changed after I installed libdvdcss. Before it was:

libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.

After installing libdvdcss it became:

libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.5 for DVD access
libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Did the graphical error message in Totem change at all? Or do you still get 'Could not read title information for DVD'?

[Eric Fallon (eric-fallon)]

The graphical message is still the same: 'Could not read title information for DVD'.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you still have that issue with dapper?

[Eric Fallon (eric-fallon)]

The error has changed since moving to Dapper. Now when I insert a dvd the following error occurs:

No URI handler implemented for "dvd".

I have been using Xine to play dvd's with no problems.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you still have that problem?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Your bug lacks information we would need to investigate further. We
are now going to close the bug - please reopen if you have more
information at hand.

[Vinicius Veras (cajuveras)]

Im having a similar bug.

My CPU is an AMD64, and the system is

$ uname -a
Linux Cajueiro 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 01:04:16 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/

Here are the libraries:

$ dpkg -l libdvd\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Nome Versão Descrição
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un libdvdcss <nenhuma> (nenhuma descrição disponível)
un libdvdcss0.0.1 <nenhuma> (nenhuma descrição disponível)
un libdvdcss0.0.2 <nenhuma> (nenhuma descrição disponível)
ii libdvdcss2 1.2.9-2medibun Library for accessing DVDs like block device
ii libdvdnav4 0.1.10-0.2 The DVD navigation library
ii libdvdread3 0.9.7-8ubuntu1 library for reading DVDs

Here is the output from totem-xine:
=============
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1.1.11.1 from http://xine.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/scd1 mounted on /media/cdrom1 for CSS authentication
libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/caju/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f70000. Regions: 4

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000123
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x000001a1
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00000a92
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x001d76d9
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x001d7727
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 2 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
demux_wavpack: (open_wv_file:127) open_wv_file: non-seekable inputs aren't supported yet.

[Vinicius Veras (cajuveras)]

Yes! Yesterday just before sending that comment right above, I installed libdvdcss2.
Today the Totem-xine is working properly.
Thanks!