no sound in totem while playing home dvd (intrepid)

[Karl F. Larsen]

H.S. wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>     Since you have VLC working well why do you care if Totem even works? 
>> I remove Totem from all my systems.
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> It is not that simple. The reason I asked was that I need to give very
> simple instructions to a user on how to play a DVD. To do so, I wanted
> to see how it works in Ubuntu myself. The idea is to let the user use
> the simplest default stuff to do the work.
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> Now, having said that, the fact that I can use VLC does not mean that
> Totem problem should be ignored. The reason I mentioned VLC was to prove
> that sound otherwise works alright. VLC has some problems of its own
> while playing a dvd from a device, but that is OT in this thread.
>
> Hope you understand the scenario. Sigh.
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    What is not simple about VLC? I use it all the time and it just works.

As for it being a non Ubuntu software, I wish those who make those 
choices would choose VLC for the "official" viewer in Ubuntu.

Karl




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