Hi all, Well, I have Totem installed on my FC2 system, and I'm a little confused about the two backends available for it: xine and gstreamer. My questions: 1. What's the difference with xine and gstreamer? 2. Why would one want to choose one over the other (i.e. xine and gstreamer)? 3. I've tried playing WMVs with Totem, but no go. I know if I install the "w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm", I will most probably be able to play WMVs. However, I thought xine could play WMV files anyway. What's the deal? 4. Quicktime files can be played with Totem after installing gstreamer-ffmpeg from Freshrpms. But, I'm not using the gstreamer backend with Totem. In fact, I'm calling Totem from the Gnome menu with just "totem": how the hell do the Quicktime files play, then?! 5. I installed the gstreamer-extra-plugins-audio and gstreamer-extra-plugins-video RPMs from Freshrpms. Before doing this, playing some mpeg files was not possible (e.g. the Enterprise season finale). Again, I thought with the xine backend (which I don't know how it's being used), mpeg files would just work. Why are these extra packages required? I'm fairly confused with Totem. I know it needs xine-libs to work, but a lot of the files I tried to play through it wouldn't work without installing additional packages, even though on Xine's site it says they should have. Being able to use gstreamer as a backend just makes it even weirder. If someone could so kind as to explain what the hell is going on, I'd be grateful. I know, it's a weird request, but I just want to know what the differences are between xine and gstreamer and what the advantages/disadvantages are in the context of Totem. Thanks, Kanwar
