I have my original test version of sled11 which I installed when it was first released. I managed to install the required files for multimedia formats and everything works fine.
The system has updated as updates have been released via the evaluation update code quite happily.
I liked it and decided to get a sled11 license and install on my main workstation.
About a month has passed since the test install and my fresh licensed install and I accepted all the updates on install.
When I install the multimedia apps, only kaffeine will read multimedia dvds.
Nautilus, brasero and totem say it is a restricted format and refuse to read it.
Any ideas on what to look for?
You have added Packman for openSUSE 11.1 I assume and added libdvdcss from VLC manually?
And have tried an Update all Unconditionally in Packman?
Looked at SLED forum?
whych wrote:
> I liked it and decided to get a sled11 license
this is the openSUSE Linux forum…
what you have is the commercial (non-free) Linux from Novell…yes,
the open side and the commercial side are related, but NOT the same…
though it may be helpful, imo you should ignore all advice you get
here and, instead join the correct forum for your SUPPORTED software, at:
‘SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) - NOVELL FORUMS’
(http://tinyurl.com/5lcm75)
it is my understanding that the openSUSE repos should NOT be used to
service SLED or SLES…(someone please correct me if that is wrong.)
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natural^^-^^pilot
it is my understanding that the openSUSE repos should NOT be used to
service SLED or SLES…(someone please correct me if that is wrong.)
Officially - That would probably be true. However, it is widely practiced - The adding of Packman. At least that’s my understanding and one which seems to be recommended in the SLED forum. And that forum is frequented by our OP.
caf4926
Yes, added everything as you would for opensuse. Only kaffeine will play dvds. Totem and nautilus report its a restricted access drive and won’t mount it.
The one click installs don’t work for sled, so I did it all manually.
On a standard fresh sled install with no updates, it all works.
Once registered, the updates kill multimedia.
When you put a mm dvd in the drive, you get this message:
Cannot mount volume.
Unable to mount the volume ‘THE_FIFTEEN_STREETS’.
Unable to mount THE_FIFTEEN_STREETS
DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Since I have a test system running on an evaluation code and a registered system, how can I check for the differences in the installation files? There has to be a difference in the updates that are pushed to an eval system and those for a registered one.
SLED uses gnome as a default, and it seems like there is something missing or changed in the gnome updates.
natural_pilot:
I know this is the opensuse forum. I bought sled because I liked it and believe in keeping s/ware kosher. Otherwise, I have used suse/opensuse since version 4 or 5.
Being restricted formats, Novell can’t support it on the sled forum. They point you to fluendo who don’t do dvds yet, or the packman repo.
The problem is that there is no licensed linux app which supports restricted formats.
> Officially - That would probably be true. However, it is widely
> practiced - The adding of Packman. At least that’s my understanding and
> one which seems to be recommended in the SLED forum.
ok…but, still i feel it necessary to wave their questions off from
this forum–and let them get the packman suggestion from the folks
with SLED experience…
i mean, i’ve too many times seen the first advice such a poster gets
is to dump the old version, format and upgrade to 11.2 (or whatever)
while such advice is well meaning, i’ve seen it come comes from folks
with a full month of experience with Linux (and don’t know there is a
similarly named, commercial product with real support and its own
fora)…
ymmv
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natural^^-^^pilot
Really then, you need to take this back to the SLED forum and establish if updates differ in eval to licensed.
Will do. I’m not holding my breath though 
Maybe I should try their installation support and see how good it is!
I’ll post the outcome here to help others with a similar problem.
It’s an odd one this. I understand though, you can use kaffeine though? What about mplayer/smplayer/vlc??
gnome-mplayer works fine.
It just won’t mount the dvd which is probaably why totem won’t play it.
Also brasero (sled) says it can’t be copied without the correct pugins. I’ll change this to packman’s version and try again.
gstreamer is all from packman.
All very stange, since it all works on a fresh non-updated system and breaks when it updates. Trouble is there are too many updates now to do all individually.
Quick update:
Other than a meaningless email fro Novell SLED support about dependencies, etc, I got nothing back.
I decided to see if my opensuse 11.1 with gnome worked, sodid the one-click install for gnome multimedia.
Opensuse 11.1 gnome gives the same errors, suggesting there is something missing in gnome with both opensuse and sled.
In previous opensuse installs I have always used kde3, and never had a problem, but there is a problem with gnome.
Anyone else had this problem using gnome and no kde installed?
> Opensuse 11.1 gnome gives the same errors
what error are you seeing in both SLED and openSUSE, exactly?
if you start the offending applications via a terminal, and try to use
them what errors do you see?
when you wrote “When I install the multimedia apps, only kaffeine will
read multimedia dvds.” i now ask: so? if kaffeine plays it, what is
the problem?
and, you wrote: “Nautilus, brasero and totem say it is a restricted
format and refuse to read it.”
does that mean they won’t play a dvd?
- i don’t think nautilus (a file manager) ‘plays’ anything…
- same for brasero, it burns not plays…
- what exact error do you see in the terminal when totem refuses to
read it?
are you by chance trying to figure out a way to duplicate copyrighted
DVDs?
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As an update:
There is an opensuse 11.x thread that has a similar problem. By mounting the drivemanuslly as root, nautilus/gnome apps will be able to read the dved files and native gnome multimedia apss work. (totem, brasero, etc.)
Trouble with sled is the updates change and a fresh install yesterday has everything working fine!
I’ll post instructions for sled 11 to the restricted format thread later.
Hi
I use the fluendo codecs and libdvdcss2 (just compiled the src rpm from
packman) have no issues with media 
I also use handbrake (standalone application http://handbrake.fr/ )
which I have made a customized rpm from for transcoding dvds to mpeg4
<cough> I mean make backups…
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.23-0.1-default
up 11 days 11:13, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.04, 0.05
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 185.18.14
Malcolm
When you say you use the gstreamer-fluendo plugins, does this mean you don’t add the plugins-bad?
The only problem is totem doesn’t find the mpeg2 decoder.
My problem was not that totem wasn’t playing dvd’s, gnome/nautilus refused to mount the dvd. If I mounted it as root from command line, it would mount and I could play the dvd!
Trouble is, it works fine on a fresh install without updating during install, but the novell updates cause it to stop working.
However, as explained, the latest set of updates seem to have fixed this and everything works, provided you update dureing install!
Hi
Correct, just the standard gstreamer plugins, base, good and
schroedinger along with the fluendo bundle.
I have had gstreamer updates, but everything is working ok since the
install in May.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.23-0.1-default
up 12 days 1:38, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.23, 0.18
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 185.18.14
My initial test install with an eval licence in May early June worked fine. It was only after I did a fresh install in mid-June with a full licence code that things went wrong.
Yesterday’s fresh install worked fine, except for mpg2 decoding. Seems to want an mpg2 codec.
Hi
You could try sending an email to Mr Petersen at
http://www.pcc-services.com/ who has built SLE10 rpm’s and see if he is
going to prepare a SLE11 one?
I also use vmware build of SLE11 as a build environment and use src
rpms for other building eg handbrake so I keep the main system as clean
as possible.
No issues here with playing mpeg2 either via totem or in firefox.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.23-0.1-default
up 12 days 2:07, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.05
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 185.18.14
After many weeks of messing around with different installs, I finally discovered the problem.
The SLED11 update kernel 2.27.23.0.1.1 prevents automount of udf filesystems on some systems.
My 2 gigabyte motherboards have a problem with the kernel, but my asrock one doesn’t!
Hi,
I have not yet seen any SLED11 ‘restricted format’ but its early days. The HP 625 laptop only arrived Tuesday morning (48 hours ago).
By default the machine set up with GDM and Gnome. I used Yast to install KDM and KDE 4.2 from Novell and deleted much of Gnome. With updates the total download
was 3.2 GBs. On each update to a new install of a KDE package a warning was given that the software was not covered or a new license required. (Looks as
though I invalidated the license as soon a Yast was entered although updating from Novell repos.)
Dolphin and Konqueror have no problems reading DVD’s and Audio CDs.
To get Kaffeine to work, I added updates from Packman for openSUSE 11.1, libdvdcss from VLC manually and xine-lib 1.1.19 from xine-project manually.
For Automounting I used the info from jdmcdaniel3’s thread ‘Multimedia Optical Drive Naming (ie /dev/dvd & /dev/cdrom) Howto in opneSUSE’ on this forum.