[Bug 92738] major DVD playback bug with Totem

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: totem

I have major problems making Totem working with an encrypted DVD.
Libdvdcss is installed, and when I pop up the DVD disk in the drive HAL
loads Totem and Totem *plays* perfectly the video. However, none of the
DVD options/buttons work (chapters, forward/previous, skip etc etc). If
I stop that video and I try to reload the DVD video again from the menu
this time, I get an error saying that I don't have the necessary plugins
to view encrypted DVD video!!

It seems that your new code that loads the special restricted plugin
application when Totem detects a non-suppored codec is buggy. It seems
that Totem is now conditioned to ONLY work with YOUR libraries and not
with the same libraries that were packaged by other people! I believe
that this is why Totem completely ignores the fact that libdvdcss is
installed correctly and doesn't let me play a DVD. Please fix this,
because as it stands now, there is no way to play a DVD video on Ubuntu
when libdvdcss is installed.

Please try it yourself. Install a libdvdcss, pop a DVD and stop Totem or
try to skip a chapter and then retry to replay the video, it won't work!
If you are not going to fix this then at least you _must_ provide your
version of libdvdcss automatically when an encrypted DVD is detected as
unsupported. But I understand that this is shady depending on which
country you are in, so you must test Totem to make sure it works with
any libdvdcss package that a random user will install.

** Affects: totem (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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major DVD playback bug with Totem
https://launchpad.net/bugs/92738