On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:45:38AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:05:47PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > > Yes, you are right - Totem does appear to play CD's just fine. > > (although it does seem to be lacking freedb support for nameing tracks) > > my first guess is that the other players are trying to play with a > different sound system than totem. for example, maybe they are trying > to play through alsa when you have esd running or some similar > conflict. but that's only a guess.
I've tried with both KDE and fvwm, where the latter should normally be free of any sound daemons. > > But there seems to be a problem with encryption if I try to play. > > The messages in the terminal window include: > > libdvdnav: Encrypted DVD support unavailable. > > and there is a popup box says > > The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. Are you > > trying to play an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss? > > > > The mentioned lib does not seem to be in the standard libraries - anyone > > know if this will fix the problem, and where I can find it if so? > > add > > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ [sarge|etch|sid] main > > to your sources.list to get libdvdcss from Marillat's repository. This > will allow you to decrypt dvd's. Yep, that seemed to do the trick - thanks! One minor glitch that still remains with the DVD playout is that totem fails with an assertion error if I don't manually mount the media first: (totem:7453): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed I would normally classify any assert failure as a program fault rather than usage error. The error box contains the text: "Failed to find mountpoint for device /dev/scd0 in /etc/fstab" but I have: fujitsu:/etc/apt# grep scd0 /etc/fstab /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 which lets me do the mount as a mortal user quite happily.. > Provided of course that you are not in a DMCA affect country :) Don't get me started on that.. :-/ <soapbox> I live in a country that participated in the Neuremburg trials, which as far as I can see means that I am not only allowed, but obliged on pain of death to disobey any laws passed by the current regime which I consider immoral and unjust. If DMCA were addopted by my government and the effect is to make it illegal to play DVDs which I have legally purchased, I would considder that immoral, and hence would have no choice but to install the software. Not to mention the abomination that is DVD regional coding, for which I believe the recording industry should be prosecuted and made to forfiet all copyright claims to material so encoded as a punishment for their restrictive trade practices.... </soapbox> Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]