How do I get totem + gstreamer-ffmpeg working?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 08/24/2009 05:34 PM, Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi,
> it's been 1 month since I installed F11, and I never could get totem to
> work with proprietary codecs which require gstreamer-ffmpeg. Totem does
> know it has to download proprietary codecs (nice), but doesn't recognize
> I already have it installed and keeps asking me to (re)install it, and
> then it fails saying it is (duh) already installed :-/

> So, if someone managed to workaround this, please let me know, it will
> be much appreciated. 

Do you have gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad and
gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras as well? If not, install it and see if the
problem goes away

Also, if someone could actually fix this so that it
> "just works" as it was supposed to do, please, please, do it. It will be
> even more appreciated ;-)

That cannot be done due to software patents

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_Patents

Rahul