Audio doesn't play while playing a DVD

[Jonathan D. Armendariz]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> Oh, I see, I missed the "Movie Player" in "Movie Player (Xine)".  So,
> what your are saying is that you use the totem-xine player, as opposed
> to the default, totem-gstreamer? 
> 
> I had thought you were saying "I use xine, the movie player".

Apologies if I wasn't clear. It was a late night for me in the first 
email. :-)

> First of all, may I ask why? Except for (some?) rm files and some (rare)
> wmv files, totem-gstreamer works flawlessly for me. For the rm and weird
> wmv files I can always use straight xine.

Though now I'll be using VLC for DVD playback I do use totem-gstreamer 
for things such as shoutcast and so on. So far it works well for that.

> But whatever, nevertheless: totem-xine, by using the xine backend,
> relies on xine being configured correctly. And in Ubuntu 8.10 that means
> that it must use pulseaudio  (if you have that enabled, which is the
> default) because it will not get access to the sound device (which
> pulseaudio likely has locked).
> 
> I had thought that you would have to edit the
> file /home/<username>/.config/totem/xine_config to enable pulseaudio,
> but I just tried that and it worked by default. 
> I thought that this would be the case because I had to reconfigure my
> xine player (straight xine, that is) for pulseaudio. But then my config
> file comes from pre-pulseaudio days. A newly installed totem-xine works
> out of the box for me.
> 
> So, sorry, no idea then

It's all good. Thanks for the help!

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