Totem=noshow

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 22:27 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 03 December 2006 21:10, 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.
> >
> >Craig
> 
> Well, if it would tell me what sort of a file it won't play instead of 
> just showing the files hash name in the cache, I could be a little 
> clearer about it.
> 
> In the meantime I've nuked totem & all its dependencies, and installed all 
> the stuff for vlc and mplayer.  But just now, after verifying I had a 
> list of plugins for just about every format I could imagine and about 6 
> printed pages long, I clicked on a video in a link I'd followed off 
> slashdot about the canuck meteorite having stuff in it older than the 
> sun, and firefox simply went away.  This install included quicktime, 
> realplayer9, everything mplayer can do and everything that vlc has 
> plugins to do, which appears to be quite extensive.
> 
> I'm going to run ldconfig to refresh things after all that installation, 
> and restart firefox from the console, just to see if it will repeat, and 
> if so, leave an error message behind other than the single 
> word 'segfault' which is, you'll have to admit, real fscking informative.
> 
> Nope, clicking on the blood diamonds story opens a small window in the 
> middle of the screen window like its going to play the video, draws some 
> text around it, then in 1/2 second I'm looking at the console I started 
> firefox from, and its totally devoid of any clue as to why firefox quit.
> 
> =======================
> [root at coyote ~]# ldconfig
> [root at coyote ~]# firefox
> [root at coyote ~]#
> =======================
> 
> So how exactly does one go about troubleshooting this when clues are made 
> of unobtainium?
> 
> Many thanks for any usefull info from anyone on how to fix this.


Don't waste any more time on Totem, it's crap.  Go with Ogle; the gui is
able to use the dvd menus much better than alot of others I've seen.

BTW, you are not the only one having trouble with totem.  FYI:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/x192.html

Excerpt:
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FC5 ships the GNOME project's official video player, totem.
Unfortunately, it won't play DVDs.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-January/msg01239.html

The symptom is an error popup that says "Totem was not able to play this
disc. No reason", but the problem is actually a known bug in
gstreamer-0.10.
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