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When I insert a DVD into the DVD-ROM drive, Totem starts and tries to
play it. But it fails with the message: "Could not open location; you
might not have permission to open the file".
Oddly, I am able to navigate in xfce to /media/cdrom0 and view the
files.
Stranger still, if I open a terminal window and type: "totem
/media/cdrom0" at the prompt the DVD plays perfectly with menus acting
correctly.
Originally I had noticed user and group permissions on the mounted DVD
would reference a very large integer. So i had thought this problem was
caused by bad users, groups or permissions. But I have completely ruled
that out with my above test - the only difference between playing and
not playing is how totem starts: autoplay vs from the commandline.
I do not know how to capture errors when starting totem via autoplay,
but if someone can tell me how I would be happy to try it.
I want to be really clear because there are a lot of similar sounding
bugs and complaints on the forum pages: This bug IS NOT caused by: A)
missing libraries (libdvdcss2) - I proved that by playing the dvd from
the command line. B) problems with fstab, mounting issues - I proved
that by running from the command line above as user, no sudo.
Has to be something about the way Totem starts under auto play vs from
the terminal.
** Affects: totem (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Totem won't autoplay DVD
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/347045
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