totem and other media players need to check DVD region
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totem |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| totem (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: totem
I'm going to add this to the community howto if I can, but thought I'd pass it on as a feature request. I have a new laptop, and just installed Feisty Herd 5. After following the community howto for Feisty DVD playback, it wouldn't work (kept giving obscure IDE errors in /var/log/syslog). Totem just gave "Unable to read resource" when the DVD was inserted.
Turns out, because the laptop was new, and had never had a Windows DVD player activated on it, the region code on the laptops DVD drive had never been set. This caused the aforementioned errors. I installed regionset, ran it and set the region code to 1, and everything now works.
My suggestion is that totem and other media players check the region code, and give a meaningful error message rather than just failing in a bizarre way with a bunch of weird and misleading IDE messages in /var/log/syslog. It would have saved me about an hour of frantic googling.
FWIW, Feisty rocks!
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in totem: | |
| assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #2 |
| Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in totem: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
| Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in totem: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
| Changed in totem: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
Thank you for your bug