[patch] burning CDs section

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Wed Apr 5 21:59:21 UTC 2006


> I also tried to look at the DVD playback section, to write something on
>
> 1. whether extra codecs are needed?
> 2. should we recommend a better dvd player?
>
> but I was confused by this line in the Wiki:
>
> /"Note: With Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), the gstreamer dvd plugin has
> not been ported to the new version of gstreamer, 0.10. Please use the
> xine backend."
>
> /I suppose this means that Gstreamer doesn't support DVDs at the moment,
> but surely the plugin will be ported before Dapper is released despite
> of the feature freeze? If not, I guess we should recommend the
> xine-backend for Totem, but as I'm still on Breezy I can't really test
> how that works (apparently it requires uninstalling ubuntu-desktop and
> Gstreamer to install xine-backend instead. Not something I would recommend).
>
> Anyway, I hope somebody knows more about this.
>
> Andreas

Currently Gstreamer0.10 does not support DVD menus, but it should be
able to play them back. However, gstreamer0.10 is a much better
solution for regular video. Hence we cannot just switch to totem-xine.
I recommend we use gxine, as it uses the other pieces we already
install as part of guide.

Corey




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