Totem will no play DVDs: No reason.

[Lukas Sabota]

I'm using totem-gstreamer with the latest dapper. When I put in my video DVD (Radiohead: Live at Astoria), Totem will come up automatically and try to play the DVD. I get this error (This is perhaps my favorite error ever):
"Totem was not able to play this disc.

No reason."
If I then go to Movie... Play Disc RADIOHEAD, I will get a more descriptive error message:
"Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because you do not have the appropriate plugins to handle it."
This is another problem, but this error message gives no directions on how to install the plugins. Maybe a "See this page for details" with a link to the wiki or docs?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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.

[Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318)]

The "No reason" error message comes up even when using totem-xine is installed. But going to Movie.. Play disk will make the movie play fine.

[bwallum (rbw2)]

I get the same problem. I have the Medibuntu repository added and I have all the gstreamer plugins loaded.
If you say that this is a duplicate report Sebastien then please reference the original because I cannot find it.

[macavity (bschroder)]

I went for a normal Ubuntu installation with Totem as the default Movie Player,
added a few Gstreamer plug-ins via 'Add/Remove'
but I still cannot play my DVDs anymore. All this used to work under Feisty.
(Very frustrating to see no progress on the DVD playback front...How am I supposed to spread Ubuntu if basic stuff like that doesn't work?)

At first Totem recognized that additional plug-ins were missing and started the automatic codec installation process.
Once that completed it still complained with this error message:
Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because it does not have the appropriate plugins to be able to read from the disc.

Then I started Totem from the command line and this is what I saw:

me@my-dell:~$ totem
sh: jackd: not found

*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in ifo_read.c:710 ***
*** for cell_playback[i].first_sector <= cell_playback[i].last_vobu_start_sector ***

*** Zero check failed in ifo_read.c:731
    for cell_position[i].zero_1 = 0x04

** Message: Error: Could not read from resource.
dvdreadsrc.c(908): gst_dvd_read_src_create (): /play/source

Here is some system information:
me@my-dell:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev a1)
02:09.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems 56k WinModem (rev 01)
02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 1 (rev 02)

me@my-dell:~$ uname -a
Linux my-dell 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[nicola.mondinelli (nicola-mondinelli)]

could be a problem of DVD MOVIE and not of ubuntu...

two months ago a new DRM was implemented for DVD movie...

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/89306

http://www.x-protect.com/8.html

IT introduces errors in the CRC of some sectors in the dvd crashing the player.
Universal and Warner Bros have signed a contract. my "corpse bride" DVD is impossible to read in ubuntu. but it IS NOT ubuntu FAULT, it's warner FAULT...

i'm very ungry.

[amy (amycrams)]

I got the: Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because it does not have the appropriate plugins to be able to read from the disc.
I see that this has been a problem, Ubuntu is aware of it, but how am I supposed to watch a movie? I am completely unfamiliar, and is there another dvd player that Ubuntu works with?
thanks