there's an issue in libdvdread, triggered by DVDs with Unicode filenames (example of such DVD is a movie Thor).
Original bug report is available here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813977
There is also an enhanced Unicodedecode function on Ubuntu forum, which I consider better, than the current implementation is (see the patch attached): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11254706
Unfortunately, I'm unable to reproduce this issue, since I don't have such DVD, so I cannot verify if the patch fixes the issue.
Sorry to respond so late. According to the logs this issue should have been fixed in version 4.2.0 by a patch John Stebbins submitted. The link you give to the redhat bug confuses me a little bit, it seems totem works but xine didn't. Not only that but the original reporter said that the patch didn't help. I am reluctant to apply the ubuntu patch unless it can be shown that John's patch doesn't fix the issue in all cases. E -- Erik Hovland erik@hovland.org http://hovland.org/