playing mpeg has cone screwey.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> OK, installing those extra rpms make totem work. But that leaves us with
> two questions:
> 1. Why did the displaying of the videos work until yesterday?

I have no idea.

> 2. If these rpms are necessary to make totem work why are they not
> installed as dependencies when totem is installed?

By default, Fedora includes support for open and non patent encumbered 
formats via gstreamer and xine. The additional codecs are included in 
other third party repositories and they are optional. Fedora cannot 
include them for well known reasons as I have explained in length to you 
before.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems

Rahul