Bug#634876: totem: No playback of DVDs in Totem Debian / Squeeze

[Tomas Kral]

Package: totem
Version: 2.30.2-6
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Cannot play back DVDs in Totem using backend GStreamer 0.10.x
Video is out of sync, many video frames are dropped, audio is not audible or
very bad.

This problem, on my machine, first occurred in Lenny distribution of Debian
Linux, is present in Squeeze, current most up to date version of Debian.
This problem does not appear to be with Totem using Xine backend, but xine libs
were dropped in Squeeze distribution. GStreamer is the only backend available
for me now.

Films dowloaded from the internet, .xvid.wav type of formats, are played back
alright. Also playing back of music mpeg files or radio over internet is
alright though.

The problem really appears with the playback of DVDs.

Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
Should you need any system info of my s/w or h/w setup, please let me know.
Many thanks in advance.

P.S. I have filed the bug at GNOME bugzilla with the logs attached there as well
Bug 654383 - No playback of DVDs in Totem Debian / Squeeze

Regards
Tomas Kral

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (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/dash

Versions of packages totem depends on:
ii  gnome-icon-theme   2.30.3-2              GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.30-1             GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-plug 0.10.19-2+b2          GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii  gstreamer0.10-plug 0.10.30-1             GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-plug 0.10.24-1             GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-x    0.10.30-1             GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang
ii  libatk1.0-0        1.30.0-1              The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6              2.11.2-10             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2          1.8.10-6              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.2.24-4+squeeze1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.88-2.1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-2.1             generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.4.2-2.1             FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4        2.28.1-6              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.24.2-1              The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgstreamer-plugi 0.10.30-1             GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.30-1             Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.20.1-2              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6            2:1.0.6-2             X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extens 2.30.1-2squeeze1      libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.28.3-1+squeeze2     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpython2.6       2.6.6-8+b1            Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii  libsm6             2:1.1.1-1             X11 Session Management library
ii  libtotem-plparser1 2.30.3-1              Totem Playlist Parser library - ru
ii  libunique-1.0-0    1.1.6-1.1             Library for writing single instanc
ii  libx11-6           2:1.3.3-4             X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2         2:1.3.0-3             X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxtst6           2:1.1.0-3             X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii  libxxf86vm1        1:1.1.0-2             X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii  totem-common       2.30.2-6              Data files for the Totem media pla
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages totem recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg        0.10.10-1    FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad   0.10.19-2+b2 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly  0.10.15-1    GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" 
ii  totem-plugins               2.30.2-6     Plugins for the Totem media player

Versions of packages totem suggests:
pn  gnome-codec-install           <none>     (no description available)
pn  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio      <none>     (no description available)
pn  totem-coherence               <none>     (no description available)
pn  totem-mozilla                 <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information