Totem=noshow

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:13:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Monday 04 December 2006 00:58, Ric Moore wrote:
>>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
> 
> I wasn't specifically trying to play a dvd, I'm just trying to get 
> weblinks to play.  ISTR the only video I've seen play here came from 
> youtube, crappy stuff generally.  Not even 8mm movie quality.  But then 
> you may not ever remember seeing one of those, being a youngster & all 
> that. :-)
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
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>

For youtube and google video you need the flash player. For things like
CNN, mplayer works beautifully. The nice thing about mplayer is that it
can pretend to be the windows mplayer, so you can view with it
(some/most) video from sites that wouldn't let you view their media unless
you were in windows. Maybe other players can do that too, I don't know.