I just tried playing my Tim Minchin DVD through Totem in 11.2 (the wife doesn’t like him, so I might as well do it on the computer 
) and got errors about not having permissions. Running it from the terminal I got errors about encryption, so I installed libdvdcss from Packman’s script*. After that I still got the same error in the UI, but got the following on the console:
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Invalid IFO for VMGM (VIDEO_TS.IFO).
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access
libdvdread: Invalid IFO for VMGM (VIDEO_TS.IFO).
** Message: no file info
** Message: Error: Could not read title information for DVD.
resindvdsrc.c(364): rsn_dvdsrc_start (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/RsnDvdBin:source/resinDvdSrc:dvdsrc:
system error: Input/output error
(the only change from before was that it now used libdvdcss - the “could not read title” was the same). I hunted around the Internet and could only find some bug reports on Ubuntu. A thought suddenly struck me that my Creative Zen player wouldn’t be picked up by Banshee until I unmounted it (under Fedora at work rather than on openSUSE at home, IIRC), so I tried unmounting the DVD and playing it again and wooosh, I’m off!
So, is that expected? When Gnome pops up a dialog and says "I just found a DVD? Do you want me to play it through Totem then should it really fail until I unmount it? Is this a common issue that needs reporting, or do I just have something odd in my config somewhere?
Also, I know there are legal issues over libdvdcss (repeat footnote 
) but couldn’t there be an easier way to get it set up, similar to the way Flash is pulled in? It wasn’t too bad as a techy, but it could be easier and I’m sure Fedora always had a simpler setup.
Thanks
- Note to movie studios: I bought the d’mned DVD/music/other and paid for it. You sold it to me for a one-time fee with no extra contract involved. Stop pissing me around with Digital Restrictions Management and other broken implementations of legitimate consumer punishment.
Rant over.
[Edited to replace “da_mn_ed” with something other than asterisks, even though pissing wasn’t filtered!]