Greg Thomas wrote:
Can any recommend a DVD player for Linux (Ubuntu, specifically)?
I'm pretty sure it's a known bug that Totem doesn't follow DVD menus properly. There's some issue which I can't remember of the top of my head......
Anyway, I will third xine. It works brilliantly for me on Ubuntu. It's great because it allows you skip chapters which are normally blocked from skipping on normal DVD players.
If you want to set it up to autoplay a DVD when you put it in;
Go to... Systems->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media Multimedia tab and add
xine -f -B dvd://
in the "Video DVD Discs" Command box and tick the "Play video DVD discs when inserted" checkbox.
The -f there defaults to fullscreen and begins to play the DVD straight away so no mucking about required. :) the -B means borderless which is cool, to move the window around alt+click&drag (if you didn't know already) Xine commands are f (or double click video) to bring it out of full screen, g to bring up the GUI.
Another tip, if you've got Compiz enabled and you move the window around or minimise it you'll notice the video overlay not working as you'd expect, leaving a blue background where the video should be... This is solved by opening the preferences in Xine (right-click->Settings->Setup) change Configuration experience level to "Master of the known universe" change to the video tab and select xshm in the video driver to use.
--Simon