Totem, xine-lib and gstreamer: need clarification
Nick David
monkeywrencher at theoryshare.com
Thu Jun 3 02:01:03 UTC 2004
M3 Freak wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Well, I have Totem installed on my FC2 system, and I'm a little confused
>about the two backends available for it: xine and gstreamer. My
>questions:
>
>1. What's the difference with xine and gstreamer?
>2. Why would one want to choose one over the other (i.e. xine and
>gstreamer)?
>3. I've tried playing WMVs with Totem, but no go. I know if I install
>the "w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm", I will most probably be able to play
>WMVs. However, I thought xine could play WMV files anyway. What's the
>deal?
>4. Quicktime files can be played with Totem after installing
>gstreamer-ffmpeg from Freshrpms. But, I'm not using the gstreamer
>backend with Totem. In fact, I'm calling Totem from the Gnome menu with
>just "totem": how the hell do the Quicktime files play, then?!
>5. I installed the gstreamer-extra-plugins-audio and
>gstreamer-extra-plugins-video RPMs from Freshrpms. Before doing this,
>playing some mpeg files was not possible (e.g. the Enterprise season
>finale). Again, I thought with the xine backend (which I don't know how
>it's being used), mpeg files would just work. Why are these extra
>packages required?
>
>I'm fairly confused with Totem. I know it needs xine-libs to work, but
>a lot of the files I tried to play through it wouldn't work without
>installing additional packages, even though on Xine's site it says they
>should have. Being able to use gstreamer as a backend just makes it
>even weirder.
>
>If someone could so kind as to explain what the hell is going on, I'd be
>grateful. I know, it's a weird request, but I just want to know what
>the differences are between xine and gstreamer and what the
>advantages/disadvantages are in the context of Totem.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kanwar
>
>
>
>
You have a very old w32codecs package to use it you must have xine I
have never heard of gstreamer but if you install xine-lib and w32codecs
you should be able to play wmvs. You can get a newer codec package at
links2linux.de
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