Totem=noshow

[Benjamin Franz]

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Craig White wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:53 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> What can I replace totem with that will work?
>>
>> I'm plumb out of patience with its I can't play this messages that do not
>> tell you what it can't play.
> ----
> you mean kind of like the vague information that I see here?
>
> Just taking a wild ass guess at your problem, I would guess that you
> need to install an unlicensed version of libdvdcss so you can decrypt
> encrypted commercial DVD movies.

Oh, it takes *far* more than that. Totem as shipped in FC is a broken 
piece of garbage that attempts to play everything - and can actually play 
almost nothing. It achieves the remarkable status of actually being 
*worse* than nothing at all.

Original Poster: Hie thee to http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php and 
life will probably get much better.

-- 
Benjamin Franz

"It is moronic to predict without first establishing an error rate
  for a prediction and keeping track of one’s past record of accuracy."
                     -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By Randomness