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Totem movie player still can't play

Asked by sajidwasif

Totem movie player still can't play DVD. whenever insert a media, the player says, "cant read from source". Totem also gives me another problem that existed in 8.04. When I try to play an audio file from my vista drive (my other OS), the file appears on the totem playlist. But then it doesn't play. also happened with other media players. Doesn't do that all the time.

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Laurie Clark-Michalek (laurielegit) said : 		#1

Do you have the necessary packages installed? try installing gstreamer from synaptic package manager.

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weni (weni-102672) said : 		#2

how to make totem movie player works?

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weni (weni-102672) said : 		#3

how to make totem movie player works?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

I prefer vlc to play movies...

Play mp3 and dvd under Ubuntu

First please install https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

You need to have extra repositories enabled..

Please first enable the multiverse repository:

Open System → Administration → Software sources → [ Tab Ubuntu software ]
enable "Software restrictecd by copyright or legal issue ( multiverse )"
Close and confirm the repository reload.

Type the following command in a terminal (applications → accessories → terminal)

sudo aptitude install vlc

To get better dvd playback first you need to add the medibuntu http://www.medibuntu.org/ repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
here howto add https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu here the medibuntu available software list http://packages.medibuntu.org/

Then to install:

sudo update
sudo aptitude install libdvdread3 libdvdnav4 libdvdcss2

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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gear3895 (gear3895) said : 		#5

If VLC or Totem doesn't work, and you want to watch dvd movies or play downloaded flv video files in Ubuntu Linux,
Google for "flv flash Totem internal data stream vlc undf"
... it's better to install everything in 32 bit, even if you have a 64 bit machine, as there are something missing in 64 bit depository like drivers, codecs,...

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gigi sandhill (scottyhill94) said : 		#6

trying to run a DVD on Totem, i first got "could not read from resource" i fixed that using restricted formats.now movie plays but i have no sound.i'm using ubuntu 11.04

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