Totem=noshow

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 05:58:29 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 18:25 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> 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.

I use xine from livna and install all it's extras as "yum -y
--enablerepo livna install xine*" should get you all the goodies for Dvd
playback. Otherwise, mplayer. Ric




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