I just had this (or something very similar).  I followed www.ubuntuguide.org to enable DVD playing, but Totem wouldn't work.

Reading on their website, I installed totem-xine, and it worked.  When you install totem-xine, it will remove totem-gstreamer, but that is fine.

"Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug@shubes.net> wrote:

>I'm trying to play a DVD on Ubunto. The Totem player starts 
>automatically, then up pops an error window stating that "Totem could 
>not play 'dvd://'." (cannot open file "dvd://")
>
>Can someone point me in a direction toward getting it to work?
>
>I'm happy (and sad) to say that this is the first problem I've come 
>across with Ubunto.
>-- 
>-Eric 'shubes'
>"There is no such thing as the People;
>  it is a collectivist myth.
>  There are only individual citizens
>  with individual wills
>  and individual purposes."
>-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
>     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
>  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237
>
>
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