Totem=noshow

Lyvim Xaphir knightmerc at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 4 16:25:02 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:06 +0000, Leo wrote:
> 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

It's not a newbie thing, it's a totem thing.  It's just a POS.


LX
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