[Bug 260765] Re: DVD playback does not work anymore

[nullack]

Onkar I'm sorry to report problems with all DVDs I tried using your PPA.
With the R4 title "The Core" resindvd fails to see user input regarding
which language to display at the DVD menu prompt with a list of
languages. Since user input is required to progress in the DVD menu
sequence no playback occurs.

On the R4 title "We Were Soldiers" the DVD starts to playback with the
copyright notice but then fails with "an error occured failed to connect
to stream : OK". Clearly it is bugged with determing dvd menu sequences
correctly.

On the R4 title "Ratatouille" the DVD drive seeks, no playback occurs
and totem freezes requiring the user to force quit.

Its clear to me that the idea of using the released resindvd in the bad
gstreamer plugins will result in a poor user experience. Resindvd was
put into the bad plugin set for specific reasons and I think an argument
could be fairly made that is was not ready to be considered for release
into the bad plugins set at all. If Ubuntu will not consider looking at
a CVS compile for where resindvd is up to now, then I recommend what I
see as the only real choice available : revert back to not using
resindvd with dvdnav / dvdread from the setup that Hardy used.

The setup from Hardy was not always correct, but atleast most of the
time it was able to playback main DVD titles without menus. This
sometimes caused problems, such as with the R4 title "Star Wars IV A New
Hope" where it would select the wrong dvd stream to playback as the main
title in the dvd sequence. This however did not occur very often on the
DVDs I tried with Hardy's setup.

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DVD playback does not work anymore
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260765
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