Bug#464624: should fix message about "codecs not available" when playing dvd from menu
Joey Hess
joeyh at debian.org
Fri Feb 8 01:58:32 UTC 2008
Package: totem-gstreamer
Version: 2.20.3-1
Severity: normal
I just spent several hours fighting with totem to get it to play dvds.
As described in #370789, gstreamer 0.10 lacks good support for dvds, and
so the gui has been made to not play a dvd if you pick it off the menu
in totem (though something like "totem dvd:/" at the command line works
ok).
I can't really comment on this decision to hide semi-working
functionality from the GUI. (Without resorting to profanity..) However,
the dialog that totem displays if you try to play a dvd from the GUI is
**horrible**:
Totem cannot play this type of media (DVD) because you do not have the
appropriate plugins to handle it. Please install the necessary plugins and
restart Totem to be able to play this media.
This sent me on a fruitless wild goose chase to install all the gstreamer
codecs and plugins I could find. Since I was on dialup, installing all
of them took hours. The message is just misleading and wrong, it would be more
accurate to say:
Totem's gstreamer backend does not currently fully support playing DVDs.
Install totem-xine for a DVD player that works.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages totem-gstreamer depends on:
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.20.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa [gs 0.10.17-1 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.17-1 GStreamer plugin for GnomeVFS
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.17-1 GStreamer plugins from the "base"
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.6-4 GStreamer plugins from the "good"
ii gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.17-1 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang
ii iso-codes 1.8-1 ISO language, territory, currency,
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.21.90-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.21.90-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.14-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libffi4 4.3-20080202-1 Foreign Function Interface library
ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20080202-1 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.20.1-2+b1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.5-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.20.3-1 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.20.1-1 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.17-1 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.17-1 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.7-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libnautilus-extension1 2.20.0-3 libraries for nautilus components
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.10-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.3-20080202-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtotem-plparser7 2.20.3-1 Totem Playlist Parser library - ru
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii python2.4 2.4.4-7 An interactive high-level object-o
ii totem-common 2.20.3-1 Data files for the Totem media pla
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages totem-gstreamer recommends:
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.20.3-1 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.3-4 FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.6-3 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly"
ii totem-mozilla 2.20.3-1 Totem Mozilla plugin
ii totem-plugins 2.20.3-1 Plugins for the Totem media player
-- no debconf information
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see shy jo
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