How do I get totem + gstreamer-ffmpeg working?

[Andre Costa]

Hi Rahul,

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 13:29, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> 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
>
Actually I didn't have them installed, I will do it and then do some more
tests. However, according to recent comments on
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764#c3 there is indeed some
problem with gstreamer-ffmpeg and/or totem.


> 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
>
I know Fedora can't be shipped with proprietary codecs -- and I do support
the reasons behind this. But it does provide an "automatic retrieval" of
such codecs (through PackageKit), this is the part that I referred to as
broken (not necessarily due to PackageKit itself).
Regads,
Andre
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