DVDs and gstreamer

[Santiago Erquicia]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:34 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:24 +1100, Matthew Davidson wrote:
> > What is the issue with gstreamer and DVD playback?
> 
> Currently buggy and painful, etc., etc.
> 
> > Since there seems to have been a decision to favour gstreamer over other
> > multimedia apps, presumably on the basis of it's architectural coolness,
> 
> No, mostly due to the fact that it'll be there anyway (for GNOME), and
> that it is fairly nicely split up into stuff we can distribute and stuff
> we can't. Xine is not.
> 
> > I don't want to replace totem-gstreamer with totem-xine, and the only
> > other option seems to be to install ogle, which from an end-user
> > perspective scores highly on the yuck-ometer due to it's GUI.
> 
> I'd suggest installing totem-xine anyway. You'll also need libdvdcss,
> more info on the RestrictedFormats wiki page.
> 
> - Jeff
> 

This breaks the ubuntu-desktop package.  Couldn't be possible to make
both gstreamer and xine backends for totem be parallel installable?  I
know Fedora currently does that.

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