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mardi 17 juin 2008

Starting DVD playing in totem from GNOME's drive_mount applet

Par obergix, mardi 17 juin 2008 à 13:33 :: technique

My GNOME desktop's setup is configured so that DVDs aren't auto-played when inserted. Inserted media aren't auto-mounted either. Instead I'm using the Drivemount applet to mount, open, start play, when I wish so, by using its menus.

However, I've been annoyed for a while by the fact that when I had mounted a DVD's disc, and I started "Play DVD" from drivemount-applet's menu, totem would start, but it wouldn't play the DVD, complaining that "Totem could not play 'dvd://'. The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. Are you trying to play an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss?" :(

It seems that changing the DVD auto-play command in Gnome settings' Removable drives & Media Preferences configuration dialog from 'totem dvd://' to 'totem dvd://%m' helped achieve what I needed.

Now totem is started with something like 'totem dvd:///media/DVD_MOVIE', and plays the film as expected.

This post helped me figure out how to achieve that : http://people.debian.org.tw/~chihchun/2007/06/20/fix-the-vcd-auto-play-command-in-gnome/

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samedi 4 novembre 2006

Making DVDs with GNU/Linux readable on my Combo DVD/VHS Samsung SV-DVD1E player

Par obergix, samedi 4 novembre 2006 à 12:33 :: technique - Libre etc

I've been strugling with making DVDs to save some videos on DVD, and be able to play them on the TV, and of course, I want to do that on GNU/Linux.

It seems I had an issue with the format of the DVD recordable disks. DVD-R (and DVD-RW) wouldn't be readable on the Samsung SV-DVD1E DVD player (actually a combo DVD player + VCR) connected to my TV. I finally managed to make playable ones on DVD+R disks.

I used devede to create an ISO image of the DVD. What's nice is that it can do recoding of the MPEG files apropriately. It is very simple, won't create fancy DVD menus, but produces a valid DVD apparently, and that's already a lot ;)

Then I use brasero to burn the ISO image on the DVD+R disks (on a Sony DRU-820A DVD writer).

I hope this can be useful for others.

Edit 2007/09/09 : I seem to have difficulties in playing DVDs made on DVD+R discs, encoded from TV shows captured on my Freebox HD : there are freezes from time to time, a black screen, and then the video resumes. However, these discs will play fine at my step-mother's. Dunno what's the problem. Probably that the Samsung SV-DVD1E is too old and buggy.

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