Newbie trying to see VDC and DVD with Totem.

[Jon Dixon]

Sorry. I use both mplayer *and* totem-xine depending on what I am doing.

Does it matter which drive you try it in?

Because I have mplayer installed, I also have the win32 codecs package.

Maybe that is a difference. 

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:30:06 +0700, Brian Durant
<globetrotterdk at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I have libmad and gstreamer0.8-mad installed. What is this that
> you are talking about an Mplayer GUI for totem-xine? It doesn't say
> anything about this in the description in totem-xine. I have 2 CD/DVD
> drives installed and I don't believe I made a symlink for either, but
> they pop up on the desktop when I insert a VCD/DVD.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:59:27 +0000, Jon Dixon <dixon.jon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For me, DVDs autoplay with totem-xine. It also has better menu support
> > than mplayer, i.e. mplayer doesn't have it yet :)
> >
> > For VCD, I just tell totem-xine to 'play disc' or with mplayer gui I
> > right-click in the video window and select VCD -> Open disc.
> >
> > It pays to have libmad and gstreamer0.8-mad installed for VCD from
> > what I recall (should write stuff down).
> >
> > I also changed the device to /dev/hdc as it played up when using the
> > /dev/dvd symlink.
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:35:06 +0700, Brian Durant
> > <globetrotterdk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm playing them from VCD/DVD (i.e. CD-R, RW, DVD-R), not HD. I'm
> > > using the totem gui in Warty.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:58:46 +0000, Jon Dixon <dixon.jon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > That's not an extension I recognise either.
> > > >
> > > > Are you playing things from a drive, or from a CD?
> > > >
> > > > Are you running totem from a shell, or the GUI?
> > > >
> > > > I've played VCDs and DVDs fine using both totem-xine and mplayer,
> > > > under both warty and now hoary.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:33:42 +0700, Brian Durant
> > > > <globetrotterdk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Trying to play a VCD or DVD returns the following error message:
> > > > >
> > > > > "Totem could not play 'file:///media/sdg4/ffastun.ffo'.
> > > > > The specified movie could not be found."
> > > > >
> > > > > The play disc command returns a window prompt to locate a file. Has
> > > > > anyone seen this before?
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >
> > > > > Brian
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:27:08 +1100, Lex Hider <Lex.Hider at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > 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
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
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