Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 445309
Totem no longer plays DVDs
Last modified: 2008-05-19 07:23:07 EDT
Description of problem: Shortly after install f9-preview and installing the necessary livna gst-plugins-* totem played DVDs. I couldn't get the DVD menu to work, but it played the movie and navigation worked well (which was a big improvement). Since this time an update in rawhide (or possibly livna, but I don't think so) has resulted in DVD playback no longer working. I know get a message saying that I don't have the necessary plugins. I've also tried the old dvd:///[0-9] method of playback, but this doesn't work either. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [rodd@localhost yum.repos.d]$ rpm -q totem totem-2.23.2-2.fc9.i386 [rodd@localhost yum.repos.d]$ rpm -qa | grep gst gstreamer-plugins-pulse-0.9.5-0.5.svn20070924.fc9.i386 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.7-1.lvn9.i386 gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.7-1.lvn9.i386 gstreamer-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.7-1.fc9.i386 gstreamer-plugins-schroedinger-1.0.0-1.fc9.i386 gstreamer-tools-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.19-1.fc9.i386 gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.3-4.lvn9.i386 gstreamer-python-0.10.11-2.fc9.i386 gstreamer-plugins-farsight-0.12.6-1.fc9.i386 gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras-0.10.7-1.lvn9.i386 totem-gstreamer-2.23.2-2.fc9.i386
You're probably missing a decent mpeg demuxer: http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523 What the actual error message you're getting?
Created attachment 304620 [details] Message when a DVD is inserted in the drive This is what I see when I put a DVD in the drive and then tell it to play the DVD.
Created attachment 304621 [details] Message when I try to play DVD from File menu This is what I get when I try to play the inserted DVD from the File menu
Is the disc encrypted? DVD playback works for me with the gstreamer and xine backends.
Most likely. But when I first installed f9-preview (and related livna packages) it played fine. So something has gone wrong between then and now.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Note: are you sure you are using the GStreamer backend of Totem. Check the about box please, and run "totem-backend -b gstreamer" as root if GStreamer isn't being used.
Created attachment 305925 [details] About Totem (using gstreamer) This is the about dialog. I'm pretty sure this means I'm using gstreamer.
Argh, I've just read back over the comments and you are right. I wasn't using gstreamer (xine had been installed at some stage, but I didn't do it). I thought I posted this (so I'm wondering where I posted it) but I did comment somewhere that I removed xine and switched back to gstreamer and could play DVD's again, but that the seek stuff wasn't working. Argh. I'm going to track down where I stuffed up and clear the water and close some bugs.
I'm going to close this. The problem with seeking seems to be reported in #445491 and I don't know where that other comment about using xine went.