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However - I cannot find any way of doing this.
If anyone knows better - pleasepleaseplease tell me. I'll give you an affero for it.
In FC4 and Ubuntu 5.04 I get "no url handler for dvd://" error.
What does this mean?
Installing libdvdcss2 just makes totem hang on a black screen.
Googling, and I find that everyone, and I do mean everyone, installs totem xine. And that does the trick. (But, it seems, libdvdcss2 must be installed first if you want to play encrypted dvds.)
The only reason I can think of for prefferring gstreamer to xine in the distros is that perhaps the distro folk want people to develope a dvd plugin for it - y'know: encourage development. Or maybe it has a more open licence?
I remember having this annoyance while testing Ubuntu. I solved it by removing the Totem package that came on disk and also removing Totem-gstreamer. I then installed Totem and Totem-xine packages from apt (debian etch repository packages).
The ubuntu guide seems to think you can get dvds playing in totem gstreamer if you install all the plugins, the codecs, and libdvdcss.
OTOH: the same guide then goes on to talk about installing xine-ui and mplayer ...
Anyway - I have done what everyone else has done for my ubuntu laptop - installed totem-xine, all the codecs, xine-ui and mplayer for good measure ... all following the uuntu guide.
Now - if I try to play a dvd, the player (any player) hangs with a black screen. It seems to be libdvdcss2 that is doing it - since, after removing it, dvds stop playing at the menue and I get an error message telling me I need libdvdcss2 ... <sigh> but I don't even get that far if I install it.
Now: the mirrormax apt backports repo returns "cannot stat" errors ... what is it with that?
The mirrormax and other repo troubles seem to stem from repos changing around. New repos up, but still same troubles.
This is not just totem - also mplayer and xine-ui have been used.
However - I have wondered if I may have something slightly broken in my installation ... have installed ubuntu-breezy last night. Havn't updated the packages yet.
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