totem gripes
John Wendel
jwendel10 at comcast.net
Mon Jul 25 02:56:44 UTC 2005
Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 19:16 -0500, Dale Raby wrote:
>
>>I just upgraded from FC3 to FC4. Xine worked fine, as did Mplayer
>>under the earlier releases. Now I have something called Totem... and
>>it sucks! Supposedly I can get it working if I install rpms from
>>Freshrpms... though there are cautions about using their RPMs...
>>something about compatibility issues. Now when I try to install RPMs
>>from Freshrpms, I get dependency nightmares.
>>
>>Is it, in fact, safe to add Freshrpms to the .yumconf file?
>>
>>Does anyone know why this is so complicated these days? Is it
>>lawyers? Kill 'em all!
>
>
> While killing the lawyers might also be a good start <grin>, here's what
> I did to get this working:
>
> 1) Instead of Fresh RPMs (a matter of choice really - you could do this
> with the Fresh RPMs repo), I set up the Livna repo
> (http://rpm.livna.org)
>
> 2) Install Yum Extender from Fedora Extras (yum -y install yumex).
> Again, just a matter of convenience - you could also do this with just
> the command line just as easily.
>
> 3) De-install totem (yup - just delete it with something like rpm -e
> totem)
>
> 4) In it's place, install totem-xine, xine, and all of the mplayer stuff
> except mplayerplug-in (get this from sourceforge instead of Livna or
> fresh RPMs - they only have version 2.80 available. There's a newer
> version 3.01 in an FC4 RPM that won't crash mozilla). Let Yum install
> whatever else it needs to support the additions.
>
> 5) Install mplayerplug-in version 3.01 (or later) from sourceforge
>
> 6) Download the latest version of the "all codecs" file from
> http://mplayerhq.hu - these are all of the codecs you need to support
> everything mplayer will use. Totem (the Xine version you installed) will
> also use these codecs.
>
> 7) Unpack the all-codecs package to /usr/local/lib/win32 (you will have
> to create this directory)
>
> 8) create a soft link to /usr/local/lib/win32 as /usr/lib/win32 (command
> is ln -s /usr/local/lib/win32 /usr/lib/win32)
>
> 9) Be sure to set your MPlayer preferences for your sound card and video
> needs
>
> 10) Enjoy the multimedia show!
>
> Mozilla should now automatically launch a newer version of Totem that
> will use the MPlayer codecs to play Windows Media files with no fussing
> at all. You also get the benefit of tinkering around with Xine and
> MPlayer if you feel up to it.
>
> Now, that's probably not the easiest way to do things, but killing all
> the lawyers isn't either... <smile> This does wind up with a working
> configuration though.
>
> Have fun!
>
> Chris
>
Chris
Thanks for the great advice! Now I don't have to shoot my computer.
John
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