Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: totem
I'm going to add this to the community howto if I can, but thought I'd
pass it on as a feature request. I have a new laptop, and just
installed Feisty Herd 5. After following the community howto for Feisty
DVD playback, it wouldn't work (kept giving obscure IDE errors in
/var/log/syslog). Totem just gave "Unable to read resource" when the
DVD was inserted.
Turns out, because the laptop was new, and had never had a Windows DVD
player activated on it, the region code on the laptops DVD drive had
never been set. This caused the aforementioned errors. I installed
regionset, ran it and set the region code to 1, and everything now
works.
My suggestion is that totem and other media players check the region
code, and give a meaningful error message rather than just failing in a
bizarre way with a bunch of weird and misleading IDE messages in
/var/log/syslog. It would have saved me about an hour of frantic
googling.
FWIW, Feisty rocks!
** Affects: totem (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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totem and other media players need to check DVD region
https://launchpad.net/bugs/94835
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