Totem=noshow

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:26:43 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Monday 04 December 2006 15:11, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>>On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:22:04 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Monday 04 December 2006 10:50, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>>>>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
>>>>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>>>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>>>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>>>>> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
>>>>> message by Gene Heskett are:
>>>>> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>> I seem to be in deeper do-do than that, this site causes ff to exit;
>>> <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061130-meteorite.html
>>>> Then click on one of the movies, ff goes away.  No reported error.
>>
>>Strange, mine works flawlessly, better than cnn. That is, mplayer plays
>>the videos embedded in firefox (1.5x).
>>
>>Do this:
>>
>>Hover the mouse over the link with the clip to see the url at the bottom
>>of firefox. Then run mplayer directly:
>>
>>mplayer http://news.nationalgeographic...
>>
>>Does that work?
> 
> I finally found a site that had direct links, most of them are wrapped in 
> a wagonload of html.  Its only about 1 second long and has .gif, .wmv 
> and .m1a formats available.  The gif plays, the .m1a plays but the .wmv 
> takes mplayer down.  With no errors, it just quits.  One of the other 
> players, kaffeine, reports that a .dll file is missing from the codecs 
> available.  But it otherwise sticks around as opposed to going away 
> silently.
> 
> But FF itself, if you click on any of the 3 links, is gone in 30 
> milliseconds or less.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
> message by Gene Heskett are:
> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
>



That's your problem right there. Mplayer uses some dlls from windows
(more or less) to play windows multimedia. To convince yourself, search
for and download a .wmv file. Then run mplayer file.wmv at the prompt, and
see what it tells you.


Get the windows codecs from the mplayer page: 

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Mplayer looks for them in /usr/lib/win32 or /usr/local/lib/win32. I put
them in /usr/local/lib/win32 because my /usr/local is a separate
partition, which I don't reformat upon reinstalling FC. I must have had
the win32 codecs since FC1.