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Movie Player plays only the opening credits of DVD

Asked by George A

I am new to Ubuntu, and have version 8.04 with Movie Player (Totem ver 2.22.1, using GStreamer 0.10.18 and GNOME). When trying to play a DVD, the Movie Player plays only the opening credits (there is both sound and video) and then it stops without playing the rest of DVD. If I try to get it to play, it plays the opening credits again. I have downloaded a number of codecs for Gstreamer, including libdvdread3, libdvdnav4, libdvdcss2, and some restricted formats. But I still can't play a complete DVD. Can someone suggest how I may solve this problem. Many thanks,

George A

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George A (gka1999) said : 		#1

Here is what I get when I run totem --debug from Terminal :

gka8@Asus-old8:~$ totem --debug

(totem:6718): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion `object != NULL' failed

(totem:6718): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion `object != NULL' failed

(totem:6718): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion `object != NULL' failed

(totem:6718): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion `object != NULL' failed

(totem:6718): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion `object != NULL' failed

(totem:6718): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion `object != NULL' failed

closing

Segmentation fault

gka8@Asus-old8:~$ sudo totem --debug
[sudo] password for gka8:

** (totem:7450): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name
** Message: Error: Could not read from resource.
dvdreadsrc.c(919): gst_dvd_read_src_create (): /play/source

(totem:7450): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_object_unref: assertion `object != NULL' failed

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Ajesh.Avaronnan (avajesh) said : 		#2

try playing the dvd from terminal:
mplayer dvd://2

the 2 is the track number. try with different track numbers 2,3,4,5, .........

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George A (gka1999) said : 		#3

Thank you for your input. As was noted in my question, my installation of Ubuntu 8.04 has the Movie Player (Totem Movie Player, ver 2.22.1, using GStreamer 0.10.18 and GNOME) - not the mplayer. A search with the Synaptic Package Manager indicates that the mplayer is a separate application: " The Ultimate Movie Player for Linux - Medibuntu Package". The Movie Palyer came as a "standard" with my Ubuntu 8.04 DVD.

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Ajesh.Avaronnan (avajesh) said : 		#4

you can use movie player also in the same above format

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Best Ajesh.Avaronnan (avajesh) said : 		#5

command to opem movie player is :
totem dvd://2

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George A (gka1999) said : 		#6

Ajesh: Many thanks for your help. The Terminal command you suggested works. Here is the sequence of operations / events:

1)- After inserting the DVD , the Totem Movie Player launched and played the first track (banner) with audio and video, then stopped (and the application window went black). During this phase the playlist showed cdrom0, and there was nothing else on the list.
2)- At this point I opened Terminal provided the following command:
totem dvd://2
3)- Totem started playing track 2 of the DVD, and during this phase the playlist showed 2, and there was nothing else on the list.

It seems to me that one should be able to perform the above using the GUI which is provided by the Totem Movie Player, the present mode of playing a DVD on my system seems cumbersome.

Again, many thanks for your help. My immediate problem has been solved.

George A