On 7/26/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was playing around with Totem and discovered in this version of GNOME, > the default backend is GStreamer instead of Xine. I popped a disc in the > drive and Totem comes back and says that the required plugin is not > available and aborts playing the movie. > > I'm guessing that Totem needs the FFMpeg plugin to decode movie files > on DVD. This is just a guess. Can anyone confirm this? I've got the > Base, Good and Ugly plugins installed to GStreamer now.
DVD playback in Gstreamer is pretty much broken, so totem disables it. If you want semi-working playback, try using this patch from Paldo: http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/totem/totem-2.18.2-gstreamer-0.10-dvd-1.patch.bz2 If you're really adventurous, you can try to use an alternate module from dvdread in gst-plugins-ugly in addition to the Paldo patch. http://jasonderose.org/kungfu/dvdsrc-2007-03-20.tar.gz Background for that here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372797 I've been meaning to do test this for a long time. From reading the bug, it seems that this new module works considerably better than the current one. > Anyway, I rebuilt Totem specifying Xine as the backend, and it plays > the movie as it should. This is the only reason I still use the Xine backend. However, there's a bug in browser plugin when using Xine. If you have current totem-2.18 and current xine-lib, you also need this revision: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/totem?view=revision&revision=4437 -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
