Totem playing .avi's?

[Steven Pasternak]

Ali Helmy wrote:
> On 31/03/06, *Jim Cornette* <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com 
> <mailto:fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>> wrote:
>
>     Jeff Vian wrote:
>     > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 17:26 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
>     >> On 3/30/06, Ali Helmy <alihelmy at gmail.com
>     <mailto:alihelmy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>>>> When I play .avi files in the Totem player (default player
>     for gnome) i
>     >>>>> only get sound, and no video... so is there some codecs
>     perhaps i need?
>     >>>> http://rpm.livna.org/configuration.html#Core5
>     >>> Ok, so after I installed the livna repo... now what?
>     >> yum install totem-xine ?
>     >>
>     > Totem-xine conflicts with totem.
>     > need to do
>     >
>     > yum remove totem
>     > yum install totem-xine
>     >
>     > (or at least I had to do so with FC4.)
>     >
>     >> Paul
>     >>
>     >
>
>     Thanks Paul,
>     Your suggestion still applies for FC5.
>     The conflict still exists between totem and totem-xine. I also
>     needed to
>     remove rhythmbox in order to remove totem.
>
>     Jim
>
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> Ok, so i removed totem, and installed totem-xine... now problem is, 
> when i start totem-zine, it loads up the main window for a sec, then 
> the program shuts down...
>
> what is going on?
>
> -- 
> A. Helmy 
I had that problem, too. I just saw it worth it to use kaffeine instead, 
since it links to the xine libraries by default (I also didn't want to 
sacrafice rhythmbox for totem).
-Steven