[gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

[gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

[Randy Barlow]

Howdy all, I'm trying to get Totem to play DVD's, but it tells me that I
don't have the appropriate plugin to handle DVDs.  Anybody seen this
before and know how to handle it?

Randy Barlow
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Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

[Alan]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:03:12PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
> Howdy all, I'm trying to get Totem to play DVD's, but it tells me that I
> don't have the appropriate plugin to handle DVDs.  Anybody seen this
> before and know how to handle it?
> 

Couple of questions...

Did you compile with the dvd and xine use flags?  I believe that xine is
needed for DVD menus.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

[doug asherman]

Alan wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:03:12PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
>> Howdy all, I'm trying to get Totem to play DVD's, but it tells me that I
>> don't have the appropriate plugin to handle DVDs.  Anybody seen this
>> before and know how to handle it?
> 
> Did you compile with the dvd and xine use flags?  I believe that xine is
> needed for DVD menus.

I'm not the original poster, but...

According to a note at the end of an "emerge totem", if you use the xine
backend, you get DVD menus. Just for kicks, I unmerged totem and
re-emerged it with the xine keyword. Still no DVD menus.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but perhaps this will help point the
way towards what the problem is.

In the meantime, may I suggest using xine to play DVDs? It's the best
I've used (haven't used Ogle or Mplayer to play DVDs, though).

Doug
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

[Ric de France]

There's also a "dvd" flag that may need to be turned on... This is my
totem verbose compile:

$ emerge -pv totem

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/totem-2.16.4  USE="dbus dvd gnome hal mad
mpeg ogg vorbis xine xv -a52 -debug -ffmpeg -firefox -flac -lirc
-nsplugin -nvtv -theora" 0 kB

HTH (but I feel like I'm hopefully going over the obvious)...

...Ric

On 01/01/07, doug asherman <doug@musanon.com> wrote:
> Alan wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:03:12PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
> >> Howdy all, I'm trying to get Totem to play DVD's, but it tells me that I
> >> don't have the appropriate plugin to handle DVDs.  Anybody seen this
> >> before and know how to handle it?
> >
> > Did you compile with the dvd and xine use flags?  I believe that xine is
> > needed for DVD menus.
>
> I'm not the original poster, but...
>
> According to a note at the end of an "emerge totem", if you use the xine
> backend, you get DVD menus. Just for kicks, I unmerged totem and
> re-emerged it with the xine keyword. Still no DVD menus.
>
> Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but perhaps this will help point the
> way towards what the problem is.
>
> In the meantime, may I suggest using xine to play DVDs? It's the best
> I've used (haven't used Ogle or Mplayer to play DVDs, though).
>
> Doug
> >
>
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

[doug asherman]

Ric de France wrote:
> There's also a "dvd" flag that may need to be turned on... This is my
> totem verbose compile:

Yeah, thanks, but the dvd flag was turned on. Made no difference. I'm
trying to understand the ebuild now. There's a section that says

use xine || G2CONF="${G2CONF} --gstreamer-enable=yes"

but it seems that perhaps it should be written

if use xine; then
  G2CONF="${G2CONF] --gstreamer-enable=no"
else
  G2CONF="${G2CONF] --gstreamer-enable=yes"
fi

or maybe the first one should be "--gstreamer-disable=yes" -- have to
look at the configure options too.

Soon as I figure out how to produce the checksum file for the ebuilds,
I'll put this to the test.

Doug


> 
> $ emerge -pv totem
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/totem-2.16.4  USE="dbus dvd gnome hal mad
> mpeg ogg vorbis xine xv -a52 -debug -ffmpeg -firefox -flac -lirc
> -nsplugin -nvtv -theora" 0 kB
> 
> HTH (but I feel like I'm hopefully going over the obvious)...
> 
> ...Ric
> 
> On 01/01/07, doug asherman <doug@musanon.com> wrote:
>> Alan wrote:
>> > On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:03:12PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
>> >> Howdy all, I'm trying to get Totem to play DVD's, but it tells me
>> that I
>> >> don't have the appropriate plugin to handle DVDs.  Anybody seen this
>> >> before and know how to handle it?
>> >
>> > Did you compile with the dvd and xine use flags?  I believe that
>> xine is
>> > needed for DVD menus.
>>
>> I'm not the original poster, but...
>>
>> According to a note at the end of an "emerge totem", if you use the xine
>> backend, you get DVD menus. Just for kicks, I unmerged totem and
>> re-emerged it with the xine keyword. Still no DVD menus.
>>
>> Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but perhaps this will help point the
>> way towards what the problem is.
>>
>> In the meantime, may I suggest using xine to play DVDs? It's the best
>> I've used (haven't used Ogle or Mplayer to play DVDs, though).
>>
>> Doug
>> >
>>
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>>
>>
> 
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

[doug asherman]

doug asherman wrote:
> Ric de France wrote:
>> There's also a "dvd" flag that may need to be turned on... This is my
>> totem verbose compile:
> 
> Yeah, thanks, but the dvd flag was turned on. Made no difference. I'm
> trying to understand the ebuild now. There's a section that says

Ok, I tried it the way I set out below (fixing the "]" typo in the
if-else first), and still I don't get the dvd menus. So....there's
obviously more going on than I'm aware of. I'll continue investigating
next year...

Sorry not to be of any help.

Doug

> 
> use xine || G2CONF="${G2CONF} --gstreamer-enable=yes"
> 
> but it seems that perhaps it should be written
> 
> if use xine; then
>   G2CONF="${G2CONF] --gstreamer-enable=no"
> else
>   G2CONF="${G2CONF] --gstreamer-enable=yes"
> fi
> 
> or maybe the first one should be "--gstreamer-disable=yes" -- have to
> look at the configure options too.
> 
> Soon as I figure out how to produce the checksum file for the ebuilds,
> I'll put this to the test.
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
>> $ emerge -pv totem
>>
>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/totem-2.16.4  USE="dbus dvd gnome hal mad
>> mpeg ogg vorbis xine xv -a52 -debug -ffmpeg -firefox -flac -lirc
>> -nsplugin -nvtv -theora" 0 kB
>>
>> HTH (but I feel like I'm hopefully going over the obvious)...
>>
>> ...Ric
>>
>> On 01/01/07, doug asherman <doug@musanon.com> wrote:
>>> Alan wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:03:12PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
>>>>> Howdy all, I'm trying to get Totem to play DVD's, but it tells me
>>> that I
>>>>> don't have the appropriate plugin to handle DVDs.  Anybody seen this
>>>>> before and know how to handle it?
>>>> Did you compile with the dvd and xine use flags?  I believe that
>>> xine is
>>>> needed for DVD menus.
>>> I'm not the original poster, but...
>>>
>>> According to a note at the end of an "emerge totem", if you use the xine
>>> backend, you get DVD menus. Just for kicks, I unmerged totem and
>>> re-emerged it with the xine keyword. Still no DVD menus.
>>>
>>> Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but perhaps this will help point the
>>> way towards what the problem is.
>>>
>>> In the meantime, may I suggest using xine to play DVDs? It's the best
>>> I've used (haven't used Ogle or Mplayer to play DVDs, though).
>>>
>>> Doug
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>>>
>>>
>>
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

[doug asherman]

doug asherman wrote:
>>> blah, blah, blah

Ok, turning on the "xine" flag does allow totem to play DVDs.

I was expecting that there would be an entry under the "Movie" menu that
said "Play DVD" as the help file says.

So, sorry to be misleading. I think the absence of the "Play DVD" entry
in the top-level "Movie" menu might be a bug.

Doug
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Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

[Randy Barlow]

On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 17:25 -0800, Alan wrote:
> Did you compile with the dvd and xine use flags?  I believe that xine is
> needed for DVD menus.

DVD yes, xine no.  I'm recompiling right now, and I did a sync and it's
upgrading to a newer version as well, so we'll see what happens!

Randy Barlow
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Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

[Strong Cypher]

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Just for DVD on linux I suggest to try other player

xine-ui is the best for me !

so :) Totem miss lot's of option I think (like audio parameter, mplayer
plugins ...)
so ... try xine-ui

have fun

2007/1/1, Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com>:
>
> On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 17:25 -0800, Alan wrote:
> > Did you compile with the dvd and xine use flags?  I believe that xine is
> > needed for DVD menus.
>
> DVD yes, xine no.  I'm recompiling right now, and I did a sync and it's
> upgrading to a newer version as well, so we'll see what happens!
>
> Randy Barlow
> http://www.electronsweatshop.com
> Alimony is the high cost of leaving.
>
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