playing DVDs with totem

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Wed Dec 26 12:34:18 UTC 2007


Martin Marques wrote:
> Aaron Konstam escribió:
>> On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 19:47 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 25 December 2007 19:29, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
>>>> just received a new DVD and wanted to play it. Fedora8 and totem 
>>>> said I
>>>> didn't have the proper plugin. I already have gstreamer-ffmpeg and
>>>> gstreamer-plugins-ugly from livna. Is gstreamer-plugins-bad also 
>>>> needed?
>>>> I do not want to change to xine or mplayer if possible. This is the
>>>> Simpsons Movie and is encrypted so libdvdcss is needed to.
>>>>
>>>> -Thanks
>>> Hi Louis. VLC plays them ok. I've never had any success with totem, 
>>> and gave up on it.
>>>
>>> Nigel.
>>>
>> You need to get rid of totem and install totem-xine. The program still
>> executes as totem.
>
> Then why is totem still there as a package?
>
    It gives you experience deleting a whole package :-)

I was where you are a while back and nothing worked for sound or 
pictures. Then I got VLC and deleted totem and have never looked back.

Karl


-- 

	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
   PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C  ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7




More information about the fedora-list mailing list