Totem=noshow

[Leo]

On Monday,  4 Dec 2006, 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.

+1

It is very confusing to newbies. We shouldn't make totem the universal
player.

-- 
Leo