Bug#488551: totem-xine: "next chapter" button does not skip unskipable chapters on DVD

Marius Mikučionis mmikucionis at gmail.com
Sun Jun 29 23:42:42 UTC 2008


2008/6/30 Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>:
> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 19:14 +0200, Marius =?UTF-8?Q?Miku=C4=8Dionis ?=
> wrote:
>> Package: totem-xine
>> Version: 2.22.2-3
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> It used to be possible to skip the trailers, FBI warnings and such from DVD by
>> pressing "n" (next chapter), however this functionality is gone now.
>>
>> This is clearly a cripleware against the user control.
>
> It's spellt "Crippleware" (with 2 'p's), and it isn't.

Thanks.
Please don't take it so personally, but "it" is, it's just not clear
(to me) where exactly it is, I really apreciate your help.

>
>> The closest thing I could find on Internet is this Ubuntu bugreport:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/97572
>>
>> Could anyone explain why this "feature" is still in 2.22.2 and in Debian?
>
> I can certainly say that this isn't a bug in Totem, because absolutely
> nothing has changed in this department (and function) since the 11th
> Sept 2006.
>
> Test xine-ui and file a bug against xine-lib instead,

I tried xine on the very same system, and it does not have these symptoms.
Any more ideas?
Why would there be a possibility to disable buttons in the first place?

> and keep your cri_pp_leware ideas to yourself.

It's not me who invented the term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crippleware

Regards,
marius






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