Ubuntu
totem package

Totem was unable to read media on first disc inserted. The next one I tried ran very jerkily and started and stopped.

Bug #303189 reported by Gary Dodge
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
totem (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: totem

Upon inserting disc it asks what action to take. I selected open totem (or perhaps media player) and got an error message that "An error occurred can not read from resource." Upon inserting a different disc which was not a commercial movie the player did play but in a very jerky and unusable manner.

Running ubuntu 8.10 installed two days ago.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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Gary Dodge (garydod) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for the report, what kind of disc was the first one? what's the exact error? could you run totem from the command line and attach the output to the report? and please remember to only post 1 issue per report. thanks.

Changed in totem:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Gary Dodge (garydod) wrote :

Hi Pedro,

OK, I inserted a commercial video dvd, an Adam Sandler movie, Chuck and Larry after starting totem from the command line. Here is the result:

gary@Moblie1:~$ totem
** (totem:5787): DEBUG: Init of Python module
** (totem:5787): DEBUG: Registering Python plugin instance: YouTube+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:5787): DEBUG: Creating object of type YouTube+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:5787): DEBUG: Creating Python plugin instance
** (totem:5787): DEBUG: Init of Python module
** (totem:5787): DEBUG: Registering Python plugin instance: BBCViewer+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:5787): DEBUG: Creating object of type BBCViewer+TotemPythonPlugin
** (totem:5787): DEBUG: Creating Python plugin instance
** Message: Error: Could not read from resource.
dvdreadsrc.c(935): gst_dvd_read_src_create (): /GstPlayBin:play/GstDvdReadSrc:source

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Gary Dodge (garydod) wrote :

I installed libdvdcss2 which solved the inability to "read from the resource" but the video still is too jerky to actually watch a video

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Tom (tom6) wrote :

I'm guessing this worked fine under Windows OS? So it's not the age of the player and the connection between it and the mboard are fine? I'm guessing that you played HighDef Dvds through your previous OS without trouble?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

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.

Changed in totem:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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