Description of problem: There is no way (in the UI, anyway) to add the proprietary codecs necessary for totem to play DVD videos. Note that I am NOT talking about totem-xine, which is a different non-Fedora package. Totem's Help claims that there one can add codecs under Preferences/General/Proprietary Plugins, but in reality there is no such option there (the "Optical Device" option is also missing) or anywhere else I can find. This is essentially bug #187692 which was closed on the false claim that there was in fact a way to add the codecs (I think the person who claimed this was probably using totem-xine and just assumed the UI was the same). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): totem-1.4.0-2
Totem intentionally upstream has disabled support for playing DVDs when using gstreamer-0.10. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330086 As of today, gstreamer-0.10 does not support DVDs or DVDs menus. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311071 The error message in totem is misleading. While it is possible to add gstreamer-plugins-ugly from freshrpms or livna to get some of the DVD plugins, it does not appear that all of them have been ported to 0.10. This is an upstream decision.