Don't know if this is related or not... http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=99554&highlight=totem+dvd+auto+play Bob Barrett wrote: > Totem will not play movie DVDs when inserted. First, some hardware and > software information: > > Processor: AMD Athlon (TM) XP 2800+ 1243.537 MHz > L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) > L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) > > Mainboard: ASUS M7A625 A7N8X/K7/NC18D/AGP8X > > BOIS: Phoenix-AwardBIOS v6.00PG > ASUS A7N8X2.0 ACPI BIOS Rev 1007 > AMD Athlon (TM) XP 2800+ > Mem: 524288k > > Graphics: NVIDIA GF FX5200 256MB DDR TV DVI S/N EHS028470 > > Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 > > DVD: hdd: TDK DVDRW420N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) > > Not the latest, but it has been reliable, and I'm not a gamer. > _____ > > Software: > > Linux 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5 #1 Sat Jul 1 13:03:45 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 > > gnome-session.i386 2.14.2-1.fc5.1 > > libdvdcss.i386 1.2.9-2.fc5 > > totem-xine.i386 1.4.0-4.lvn5 > _____ > > Problem: > > Totem will load and play, automatically, music CDs when inserted. This > doesn't with movies. > Totem will start and crash with an error message. > > I can get it to play movies with this routine: > > 1) Insert the movie DVD and wait for Totem to start and quit with the > message: > "Cannot Mount Volume. You are not privileged to mount the volume > 'MovieName'" > > 2) Run "mount /dvd" in a terminal. Totem will start and stop, but not > quit, with the message: > "Totem was not able to play this disc. No reason." Accept this message. > > 3) Bring down the Movie menu and click "Play Disk...". > > Totem then plays the movie fine. I can live with this, but something is > wrong. > Any ideas? > > Thanks for your help, > Bob > > bobbrrtt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list