Totem won't play.

[David Berg]

Ulrich Steffens wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 05.11.2006, 16:38 +0000 schrieb Keith Powell:
>> For the first time, I am trying to play a commercial DVD. It's a 
>> publicity "holidays" DVD so I suppose that it shouldn't be encrypted.
>>
>> I'm trying it with Totem, but it won't play. Tells me that I haven't got 
>> the necessary plug-ins installed.
>>
>> What plug-ins are these, please? I'm using Ubuntu "edgy".
>>
>> With KDE and Kaffeine, the DVD plays "out of the box". But I would like 
>> to play it in Gnome.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>>
> totem-getreamer has an annoying bug when it comes to dvd. if you insert
> the dvd, and totem is checked as prefferred player for dvd, totem will
> autostart and play the dvd fine. if you stop and hit play again, totem
> says it can't play the dvd because of missing plugins.

Try these methods of starting the video with the totem-gstreamer as 
installed by default:

In a terminal run "totem dvd://1"
Launch totem then open location: dvd:///media/cdrom0

I've found that both of these methods work for me even though selecting 
  "Play Disk 'DVD_NAME'" from the file menu produces the error you mention.

--Dave