[Tfug] [Solved] No dvd playback on Debian Testing (Squeeze)

Glen Pfeiffer glen at thepfeiffers.net
Sat Sep 5 01:02:28 MST 2009


On Mon Aug 31, 2009 at 06:49:30PM -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> I have installed libdvdcss2 from the debian-multimedia 
> repository and I thought that was all I needed because that's 
> all I had to do on Old-Stable (Etch). I have a laptop also 
> running testing and it cannot play dvd's either, but I never 
> bothered to figure it out because I don't play movies on it.

At happy hour, Chris (a newcomer) mentioned problems with 
gstreamer and recommended switching the totem backend to xine. I 
installed the totem-xine package and all is working well!

Thanks!

-- 
Glen 





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