[Bug 94835] totem and other media players need to check DVD region

[BullCreek]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: totem

I'm going to add this to the community howto if I can, but thought I'd
pass it on as a feature request.  I have a new laptop, and just
installed Feisty Herd 5.  After following the community howto for Feisty
DVD playback, it wouldn't work (kept giving obscure IDE errors in
/var/log/syslog).  Totem just gave "Unable to read resource" when the
DVD was inserted.

Turns out, because the laptop was new, and had never had a Windows DVD
player activated on it, the region code on the laptops DVD drive had
never been set.  This caused the aforementioned errors.  I installed
regionset, ran it and set the region code to 1, and everything now
works.

My suggestion is that totem and other media players check the region
code, and give a meaningful error message rather than just failing in a
bizarre way with a bunch of weird and misleading IDE messages in
/var/log/syslog.  It would have saved me about an hour of frantic
googling.

FWIW, Feisty rocks!

** Affects: totem (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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totem and other media players need to check DVD region
https://launchpad.net/bugs/94835