Feb022013

Why won’t Totem Movie Player play a CD audio file?

Zhong Jiang asks:

I insert the CD into the drive, the disc runs and I can open the (unidentified permission) file, when I try to play it with Totem, it says: “An error occurred. The playback of this movie requires a Audio CD source plugin which is not installed.”

This error doesn’t offer any solution in regards the CD source, since it isn’t evident of where to obtain it. When I move the file to the desktop, the media is playable. What’s wrong with the file or with the totem player?


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System: Debian 6
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Aditya Bhat

February 3, 2013

hi,
download the plugins from this website
http://projects.gnome.org/totem/index.html
happy listning

Zhong Jiang

Ok, what kind of plugin? I’m not using Windows ya know. I’ve already been there and found no solution as to how to install the source plugin.

February 4, 2013
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susendeep dutta

February 3, 2013

Why not try VLC media player ?

Zhong Jiang

Because I’m using Totem? Yeah.

February 4, 2013
susendeep dutta

I did suggested you to use VLC because I just wanted you to save from the headaches of recompiling or installing additional codecs,plugins,testing the Totem player for any issues etc..

If you look at the forum link below,it has same issue that you are facing and has solved the problem -

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5561423.html

February 4, 2013
Zhong

I appreciate your suggestion but the link you’ve provided is not applicable in my situation. The message wasn’t “solved” per say, the end of the comment suggests other application like you’ve done and that doesn’t resolve the problem, just ignoring it.

I actually wanted to know how do I install additionally codecs because I want to use Totem for all my media purposes.

February 4, 2013
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salim benhouhou

February 3, 2013

do you have the latest codecs installed ?

Zhong Jiang

Uh. Debian doesn’t comes with the ‘latest’ codecs, all are security fixes and if I want to upgrade or update, then I would need to either compile or download the source package to build on it.

February 4, 2013
Zhong Jiang

I don’t like the idea of downloading to the latest version because I have to compile and build everything. What I’m interested is the error message and why is it appearing.

February 4, 2013
ha14

if the media is playable from your desktop then burn it again to cd and try to read it, if it works then something is wrong with the original cd.

[solved] Totem does not play audio CDs
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5561423.html
To check whether it is a problem with GStreamer rather than Totem you can run the following command in a terminal:
gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=cdda://

Can’t play audio CDs
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=196&t=63940

perhaps more idea here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/media-player-863767/

Making Totem Movie Player wok with avi files. (gstreamer plugins)
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=36009

February 4, 2013
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Kylee Kanavas

February 3, 2013

Maybe copyright?

Zhong Jiang

Good guess but messages like that don’t indicate anything involving the digital content.

February 4, 2013

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