Video DVDs detected as DVD-ROMs

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I'm seeing this too

If you check in System | Administration | Disks, is the volume reported correctly as DVD Video?

Yes - I just noticed that it is detected as DVD Video in System | Administration | Disks, just not on the desktop or in Nautilus.

Here's what lshal thinks about it.

Hmm, definitely detected as a video DVD.

What settings do you have in System | Preferences | Removable Drives and Media | Multimedia for Video DVD discs?

I don't have this issue, but I've changed those settings since my last install.

In System | Preferences | Removable Drives and Media | Multimedia I have the following for Video DVDs: wxvlc dvd:///cdrom

I've tried different paths in (/dev/hdc, /dev/dvd, /media/cdrom0)... as I recall, they all worked, but none of them seemed to affect the problem in any way.

If it would be helpful to compare hardware configurations or fstab files, I can post them here. Offhand, I can say that I have the following:

A Compaq Presario 2100 (AMD Athlon XP processor, 1800+ I think)
1024 MB RAM (128 shared with Radeon IGP 320M)
40 MB HD (not sure of brand)
Toshiba SDR-6572M DVD-RW drive (not the original drive, but one I replaced it with)

It occurred to me that Phil and I might be having the same problem because of similar hardware, so I'm posting mine here for comparison.

I don't get the problem ;)

Can you try 'totem %d' as the command to run, please? And do audio CDs get autoplayed?

Thanks

Apologies, Phil - I actually meant Dennis, not you.

Okay, when I switched it to Totem, I got the following pop-up window on inserting a disc:

"Totem was not able to play this disc.

No reason."

Audio CDs do autoplay, and they have all along. The oddest thing is, DVDs worked perfectly until a few days ago - were there any updates that could have affected this?

> I don't get the problem ;)
>
> Can you try 'totem %d' as the command to run, please? And do audio CDs get autoplayed?

Now, that's just weird. I switched it back to VLC, and now it works
again. I'm stumped.

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Apologies if this appears twice; I wasn't sure if replying by email would work.

I switched my DVD auto-play app back to VLC, and now it works again. I even almost got Xine to work, but I wasn't sure what syntax to use. Totem still eludes me, though.

I'm so confused now...

You probably have the totem-gstreamer backend installed. Getting DVDs to work through this is pretty difficult (or was with gst0.8). Did you use 'vlc %d' as your command? It's possible that the DVDs are getting mounted somewhere different than before; the %d variable should be the path to the mounted disc.

Dennis, do you get any change if you alter the command? It'd also be interesting to see if this occurs on a fresh install of Dapper Beta.

Thanks

On di, 2006-04-25 at 23:24 +0000, Phil Bull wrote:

> Dennis, do you get any change if you alter the command? It'd also be
> interesting to see if this occurs on a fresh install of Dapper Beta.

No, no change, and something about audio cd's (unrelated bug probably):
If i let totem auto-play them it works, but I cannot choose "play disc"
once the disk is inserted...
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I see this too with edgy and totem-gstreamer. Autoplay works, totem dvd:// from command line works too. Playing from the totem menu movie->play disc it fails.

Still happen on Feisty ?!

Yes. Still the same problem for me.

I cant even copy the DVD disk to my HDD, I have all the mediubuntu libdvd2 codecs etc.

some of the errors:
Could not demultiplex stream (xine backend) and the default totem gstreamer error was "cannot read disk/location" or somthing.
also "location not found"

random! xine works now that i installed vlc, it still errored "cannot demuliplexe stream" and then ran..)

yep vlc seems to have sorted it out. funny i installed Mplayer last night and that didn't help.. wierd that now i can copy the dvd, it must be its copy protection thats trippin us out..

removing xine backend....done.
works with just plain gs streamer, same demultiplexe error...

so its eaither the adding mediubuntu codecs/repostiories (and then removing and reinstalling totem) or the vlc install that fixed it. hmm. have fun guys and gals. (i watched my dvd in xp last night, god what i nightmare!)

There has been no activity on this bug for a very long time, is this still happening for you on a supported release?

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