Comment 15 for bug 260765

Onkar I'm sorry to report problems with all DVDs I tried using your PPA. With the R4 title "The Core" resindvd fails to see user input regarding which language to display at the DVD menu prompt with a list of languages. Since user input is required to progress in the DVD menu sequence no playback occurs.

On the R4 title "We Were Soldiers" the DVD starts to playback with the copyright notice but then fails with "an error occured failed to connect to stream : OK". Clearly it is bugged with determing dvd menu sequences correctly.

On the R4 title "Ratatouille" the DVD drive seeks, no playback occurs and totem freezes requiring the user to force quit.

Its clear to me that the idea of using the released resindvd in the bad gstreamer plugins will result in a poor user experience. Resindvd was put into the bad plugin set for specific reasons and I think an argument could be fairly made that is was not ready to be considered for release into the bad plugins set at all. If Ubuntu will not consider looking at a CVS compile for where resindvd is up to now, then I recommend what I see as the only real choice available : revert back to not using resindvd with dvdnav / dvdread from the setup that Hardy used.

The setup from Hardy was not always correct, but atleast most of the time it was able to playback main DVD titles without menus. This sometimes caused problems, such as with the R4 title "Star Wars IV A New Hope" where it would select the wrong dvd stream to playback as the main title in the dvd sequence. This however did not occur very often on the DVDs I tried with Hardy's setup.