Newbie trying to see VDC and DVD with Totem.

[Lex Hider]

I can't comment on VCDs, but you should be able to watch DVDs if you use
totem-xine instead of totem-gstreamer. totem-gstreamer will play hardly
anything in comparison to totem-xine.

totem-xine can be found in the universe repositories.
You may also need the libdvdcss2 package to get around the CSS copy 
protection stuff on some CDs.







On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:27 +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
>Hi again,
>
>I am trying to get Totem to behave so that I can watch VCDs and DVDs.
>I have skimmed through the various HowTos, FAQs, etc. and I believe
>that I have all of the codecs downloaded properly from the alternative
>repositories. Totem just doesn't seem to be able to do anything. I
>have looked at the add proprietary plug-ins section of Totem prefs and
>don't find anything in there. Do I have to symlink or navigate to the
>win32 codecs, gstreamer et.al. or is there another way to do this? I
>know someone is going to post with the suggestion that I try Mplayer,
>but I don't have a virgin system, I don't want to upgrade to Hoary yet
>and after the debacle I have had with trying different CD burners to
>burn an audio CD and none of them as of yet being able to do anything,
>I would prefer to start slowly with Totem and try to get that to work
>before moving on to anything else.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Brian
>