Bug#390029:

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:55 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > Totem 2.20 was uploaded today, and it contains a fix for a somewhat
> > similar bug, 423512.
> >
> > I'm interested to know what effect it has on your bug. (I hope that this
> > is the last new version I need to ask you to test ;-) )
> 
> it looks like some progress is being made!  but it is still not
> working flawlessly.
> 
> if i do
> 
> $ umount /cdrom
> $ mount /cdrom
> $ totem /cdrom
> 
> the dvd _will_ play correctly!  however, if i do
> 
> $ umount /cdrom
> $ mount /cdrom
> $ totem
> then click "Movie -> Play Disc"
> 
> i will get an error message "Totem cannot play this type of media
> (DVD) because it does not have the appropriate plugins to be able to
> read from the disc."
> 
> strange that it works differently depending on whether the action was
> specified via the command line vs. via the menus.
> 
> note that this behavior is now consistent for both xfce and gnome.
> previous versions had different behaviors under the two desktop
> environments.
> 
> any more information i can provide?  can anyone confirm this problem?

Get the output of "disc-test /dev/hdc" (ie. use the real device node,
not the /dev/cdrom link) in between each step. disc-test is in the
sources of totem, under src/

Cheers

-- 
Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>