Re: Totem slow DVD playback and bad sound

[Tomas Kral <thomas.kral@email.cz>]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 19:03 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:36:45 +0200, Tomas Kral wrote:
>
> > Well, I have tried mplayer, gxine, .. not with much better results on
> > Squeeze.
>
> And VideoLAN?
>  
> > Just discovered..
> > 
> > On Lenny I selected totem-xine alternative and it works nicely, there is
> > also alternative totem-gstreamer that has problems with DVD playback.
> > 
> > On Squeeze Totem i based on gstreamer and uses libdvdread, libdvdcss,
> > libdvdnav, and there is no totem-xine alternative as in Lenny.
>
> I'm afraid Totem dropped xine backend since the latest releases and uses 
> gstreamer ;-(
>
> > So far I Cannot play DVDs with totem on Squeeze. If anybody can, could
> > they please share their settings with us.
> > 
> > Many thanks in advance.
>
> Are you saying that you can't play "any" commercial DVD with totem under 
> Squeeze? If that's your case, I would open a bug report for that.
>
> Greetings,
>
> -- 
> Camaleón
That's the point, on Lenny totem-xine works just about fine and can read commercial DVDs nicely, while totem-gstreamer on Lenny (the other alternative in Lenny distribution) cannot and does not work. 

gstreamer-xine was dropped in Squeeze (licensing issue?),
the release candidate in Squeeze became totem-gstreamer that cannot read DVDs,
and is an integral part of gnome-desktop.

At least on my machine it cannot play any DVDs on Squeeze, (some 10-15, taken at random), it does not seem to me as a performance issue, or setting issue, since it does not complain about missing codecs, libs etc.

Would be good to read more users' feedback, before posting a bug.

VideoLAN not tested so far. others yes, same problem.

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Tomas Kral <thomas.kral@email.cz>