Re: [gentoo-user] Totem doesn't play DVDs

[Ric de France]

There's also a "dvd" flag that may need to be turned on... This is my
totem verbose compile:

$ emerge -pv totem

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/totem-2.16.4  USE="dbus dvd gnome hal mad
mpeg ogg vorbis xine xv -a52 -debug -ffmpeg -firefox -flac -lirc
-nsplugin -nvtv -theora" 0 kB

HTH (but I feel like I'm hopefully going over the obvious)...

...Ric

On 01/01/07, doug asherman <doug@×××××××.com> wrote:
> Alan wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:03:12PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
> >> Howdy all, I'm trying to get Totem to play DVD's, but it tells me that I
> >> don't have the appropriate plugin to handle DVDs.  Anybody seen this
> >> before and know how to handle it?
> >
> > Did you compile with the dvd and xine use flags?  I believe that xine is
> > needed for DVD menus.
>
> I'm not the original poster, but...
>
> According to a note at the end of an "emerge totem", if you use the xine
> backend, you get DVD menus. Just for kicks, I unmerged totem and
> re-emerged it with the xine keyword. Still no DVD menus.
>
> Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but perhaps this will help point the
> way towards what the problem is.
>
> In the meantime, may I suggest using xine to play DVDs? It's the best
> I've used (haven't used Ogle or Mplayer to play DVDs, though).
>
> Doug
> >
>
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