Totem will not play DVD's

[pch.shot]

I don't understand why it works, but it does. Quicktime files would not play properly for me until I did that. I guess the xine codecs are more advanced. Glad you got it working properly I know how frustrating it can be.

[buschbarber]

My first Linux machine was a 2Ghz Celeron. I was running Vista and subsequently Dual Booted with 8.04. Then I sold it to my son and just put Ultimate 1.9 on it because he did not want to buy a license for Vista or XP. He was the one that noticed he could not play Commercial Copy Protected DVD movies. I found out that css2 was needed and once installed, it allowed him to play Commercial Copy Protected DVD's. Up to that point, he could only play Decrypted DVD's.

I tested my machine and discovered I had the same problem. I added CSS2 and I could not play the Commercial DVD's. I then was encouraged to use VLC Media Player instead of Totem. I was told to go into conf-editor, Desktop, Gnome, Volume Manager, and change the default for Autoplay DVD and Autoplay VCD, from Totem %d, to /usr/bin/vlc dvd:// and /usr/bin/vlc vcd://. From that point on, Totem still launched, when a DVD was inserted, but it would not play and I could not force it to play. I changed the settings back to Totem %d, but Totem still would not play the dvd.. I was amazed to find how much trouble it was to finally make VLC the default player for inserted DVD's. Google is wonderful when it comes to finding links to problems and solutions. I had to edit a list file and change some of the lines from Totem to VLC. In the meantime, I could not use Totem until you found the solution.

I am new to Linux, even though I spent my last 20 years , at Kodak, in IT. I am now retired and can enjoy playing with other things besides Windows.

There are so many apps that do similar things, so I am trying to sort out the differences and picking my favorites.

My next challenge was to get MythTV to work with my WinTV HVR 1600 card.

[pch.shot]

I find out most of my solutions in life by trial and error. Mostly error!!!
God blessed me with a very good memory so I don't have to write things down to remember them.
I set up Mythtv last week using my hauppauge 150 card. Had a lot of fun doing it mind you. Had it working like a charm. Two days later the tv part refused to work even though I changed nothing. That is the real beauty of computing. The challenge!! If it were too easy you would not want to do it. I'm in the process of networking my home using different software and network servers to find the easiest way so I can share the knowledge with others not really interested in doing too much thinking. Which I've found out is the majority. That's why I like this forum because a lot of thinking people take part. Hope you stick around. I've been here since February of this year and have learned more about computing than I have in all my years in the workplace.