recommended mpeg player for FC3?

Micheal Clark sundance at sundanceloki.com
Thu Dec 16 04:26:42 UTC 2004


Michael A. Peters wrote:

> On 12/12/2004 05:09:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>>
>>   what's the best choice for an MPEG player for FC3?  my first  attempt
>> at using totem caused it to fail to open a standard MPEG file, and
>> poking around in bugzilla and a couple fedora forums suggests that
>> totem is still pretty buggy.
>
>
> Totem works extremely well for me - you just need the plugins handle  
> mpeg
>
> http://mpeters.us/linux/fc3_gstreamer.php
>
> The totem that comes with Fedora works well, but if installing a 
> newer  totem makes you feel better -
>
> http://mpeters.us/yum/fedora/3/i386/RPMS.bleed/totem-0.99.22-0.0.yjl.1.i386.rpm 
>
>
> I've found that it does error messages a little better, though it  
> doesn't do anything the Fedora version doesn't (that I have found  
> anyway).
>
> If you still don't want to use totem, then xine or mplayer both work  
> well. They can be had from rpm.livna.org
>
>
I know this is coming in kind of late, but I had the exact same problem 
with totem, so I uninstalled and installed a package called totem-xine.  
I haven't had the problem since.   Not exactly sure which repo it could 
be found.  fedoratracker.org might help in that respect.

HTH

MC




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