Totem: DVD is playing at 1 fps although mplayer dvd:// plays it smoothly

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1. Steps to reproduce:
   a) Insert a DVD into drive. Dialog window appears with question for action. I have chosen "Open Movie Player" (default)
   b) Totem is automatically open. Some intro is played. (Note: this intro is played smoothly.)
   c) After intro there was DVD menu displayed. There I chose to play the film.
   d) The film started to play then...

2. I expect to play the film smoothly... because both intro in Totem and main film in mplayer is played smoothly.

3. the film is not played smoothly, but image is refreshed once per second approximately. Audio is better but also with small pauses once per several seconds. System monitor shows 100% cpu used

Notes:
intro: video 720 x 576, 25 fps, audio 192 kbps, 48000 Hz
main film: video 720 x 576, 25 fps, audio 448 kbps, 48000 Hz

that's likely a gstreamer issue and should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org

Filled at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563261

still the same problem in Ubuntu 9.04

Same problem. I think you should use VLC as a workaround. It says this in http://blog.jjtcomputing.co.uk/2009/08/22/playing-encrypted-dvds-in-ubuntu-the-complete-guide/ which I recently wrote after having my own problems with Totem.