Comment 17 for bug 43589

Hi all,

I'm having the same problem also in Debian (sid/unstable) here in my IBM Thinkpad T43.

I thought it was a kernel issue, since it happened sometime after I upgrade to a certain kernel version (sorry, can't remember the exact version, about 1 year ago).

After searching for more details last weekend, I found out that this may be a GNOME issue. Not really sure 'though.

But I do able to make VCD play again by doing this before playing:

/etc/init.d/dbus stop

To play the VCD in totem (-xine) run this: totem vcd:// (since without dbus, totem seems to failed to get the Play button to work, so we need to tell totem directly)

To play with xine or gxine is the same (xine vcd:// or gxine vcd://) but (g)xine has VCD selection from the menu, so you should be able to start it directly without any parameter.

I think this info should answer Question #1624, too.

Now, it'd be really great if someone could just fix this issue correctly :-)

Although I haven't found out why we cannot copy .dat files directly from file browser (nautilus) and VCD seems to always failed automounted in my machine here. Things use to worked just fine long time ago.