On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 18:25 -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Craig White wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:53 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings all; > >> > >> What can I replace totem with that will work? > >> > >> I'm plumb out of patience with its I can't play this messages that do not > >> tell you what it can't play. > > ---- > > you mean kind of like the vague information that I see here? > > > > Just taking a wild ass guess at your problem, I would guess that you > > need to install an unlicensed version of libdvdcss so you can decrypt > > encrypted commercial DVD movies. > > Oh, it takes *far* more than that. Totem as shipped in FC is a broken > piece of garbage that attempts to play everything - and can actually play > almost nothing. It achieves the remarkable status of actually being > *worse* than nothing at all. I use xine from livna and install all it's extras as "yum -y --enablerepo livna install xine*" should get you all the goodies for Dvd playback. Otherwise, mplayer. Ric
