2014-09-18

I installed Linux Mint 17 only yesterday on my HP d530 desktop computer, which hosts Unbutu 12.04 and Mint 17. The DVD drive works fine but totem produces no movie sound.

Totem plays videos OK but outputs some sound briefly only when I click on the fast-forward button. Mint tells me that I need a caja plugin. This HP d530 computer has a 2.666GHz Intel processor, 40GB hard drive, 1,024GB RAM, and an Intel 82845G Graphics card.

I installed Mint 17 on another HP machine a few days ago with the same Mint 17 live dvd and yet totem plays movie dvds fine there. This machine features a 2.800GHz processor, 80GB hard drive, 1,512MB RAM, and an Intel 82865 graphics card, clearly somewhat superior hardware. I'm not sure if my problem is hardware-related.

Any advice will be much appreciated.

julianvb

what about other sound? do you get any sound at all?
please tell us precisely what works and what doesn't.

Totem plays the movie dvd's video well but produces no sound at all. The only time it makes any sound is when I click on the fast-forward icon and the sound I hear is less than a one-second reproduction of the movie's sound file. In other words, it tries to reproduce the sound file but fails when I hit the fast-forward icon. By the way, I get no other sound. This sound I hear is only accidental and should not have been produced since the fast-forward button is designed to move the movie forward only.

What I am interested in is a caja Mint 17 considers missing. My question is why my other Mint 17 machine's totem works so well right 'out of the box'?

Thanks for your kind input.

julianvb

do you get any sound at all on this setup?

and if you try to play some movie files?

Do you get sound from other media players, audio or video?

Totem works just fine on my Mint 17 computer, but I have not tried to play any movie DVD's, just video files in various formats.

If it's just DVDs, it might be a codec or a DRM issue of some sort, but that is a shot in the dark. I'd suggest testing the DVDs with VLC. It's in the repos.

Both vlc and totem play .MOV files on my Mint 17 HP d530. As I reported before, totem just can't make the movie DVD's sound file work. On the other hand, my other Mint 17 machine's totem plays movie DVDs fine.

For some reason, I've never been able to make VLC work with movie DVDs on any of my Linux machines in Ubuntu or Mint thus far. That's why I was delighted when I saw totem playing a movie DVD right after I had installed Mint 17 for the first time on my HP Presario computer.

I am still trying to make use of Mint 17's error message that a caja plugin is missing from my HP d530. I wish the message were more specific.

julianvb

Try starting totem from the command line and playing a movie DVD. Perhaps some useful error messages will output to the command line.

Frank,

Here's the error file generated by totem after I entered 'totem /dev/cdrom' and hit the movie's 'PLAY' button on the screen.

julianloui
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libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/sr0 mounted on /media/jul/NEVER_AGAIN for CSS authentication
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 4.2.1
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /dev/sr0 mounted on /media/jul/NEVER_AGAIN for CSS authentication
libdvdnav: Can't read name block. Probably not a DVD-ROM device.
libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/jul/.dvdnav/.map'
libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions: 1

libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys
libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient

libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x00000129
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x00000447
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00000731
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x001fee1b
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x001fefc1
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x002016b7
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0
libdvdread: Found 3 VTS's
libdvdread: Elapsed time 0

(totem:2275): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed: GDBus.Errorrg.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

I did a search for "DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fe0000. Regions: 1" and found a thread at the Ubuntu Forums that might help:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/inde...t-1137655.html

i suggest trying

- different media players
- different dvd's

to be able to narrow down the possible cause of the problem

Hi, ondoho and Frank,

I've tried different media players in the past few months. Totem is only one that works to some extent and all the other players don't do well at all on my two Mint 17 machines. All my movie dvds exhibit the same no-sound problem with totem. I'll follow Frank's lead when I get a chance.

Thanks very much.

julianvb