Re: Totem Movie Player

[Dan Nicholson]

On 7/26/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was playing around with Totem and discovered in this version of GNOME,
> the default backend is GStreamer instead of Xine. I popped a disc in the
> drive and Totem comes back and says that the required plugin is not
> available and aborts playing the movie.
>
> I'm guessing that Totem needs the FFMpeg plugin to decode movie files
> on DVD. This is just a guess. Can anyone confirm this? I've got the
> Base, Good and Ugly plugins installed to GStreamer now.

DVD playback in Gstreamer is pretty much broken, so totem disables it.
If you want semi-working playback, try using this patch from Paldo:

http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/totem/totem-2.18.2-gstreamer-0.10-dvd-1.patch.bz2

If you're really adventurous, you can try to use an alternate module
from dvdread in gst-plugins-ugly in addition to the Paldo patch.

http://jasonderose.org/kungfu/dvdsrc-2007-03-20.tar.gz

Background for that here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372797

I've been meaning to do test this for a long time. From reading the
bug, it seems that this new module works considerably better than the
current one.

> Anyway, I rebuilt Totem specifying Xine as the backend, and it plays
> the movie as it should.

This is the only reason I still use the Xine backend. However, there's
a bug in browser plugin when using Xine. If you have current
totem-2.18 and current xine-lib, you also need this revision:

http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/totem?view=revision&revision=4437

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Totem Movie Player

[Randy McMurchy]

Hi all,

I was playing around with Totem and discovered in this version of GNOME,
the default backend is GStreamer instead of Xine. I popped a disc in the
drive and Totem comes back and says that the required plugin is not
available and aborts playing the movie.

I'm guessing that Totem needs the FFMpeg plugin to decode movie files
on DVD. This is just a guess. Can anyone confirm this? I've got the
Base, Good and Ugly plugins installed to GStreamer now.

Anyway, I rebuilt Totem specifying Xine as the backend, and it plays
the movie as it should.

I'd like to mention the appropriate stuff on the Totem page, as I'm
thinking most folks will want to view movies if they install Totem.
Who's got it all working with the GStreamer back-end?

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